pollution
A ridiculous irony of climate change
October 22, 2013We can now predict, with 100 percent certainty that climate change will actually result in much more employment for scientists, not because they made it up but rather because it is already starting to affect humanity...
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Environment threatened and 400 parks closed by government shutdown
October 1, 2013While the people are banned from the more than 400 shuttered national parks, big oil and gas companies will have no trouble getting in and will continue operations as usual in 12 of the otherwise closed...
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Documents expose new ALEC scheme to kill clean energy
August 8, 2013"It is clear ALEC is working in secret to push state policies in an extreme right direction, but working families are standing up to this agenda."
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Labor and community battle Chevron over environment
July 3, 2013The largest greenhouse gas polluter in the state, Chevron, along with the other four Bay Area refineries, is already refining tar sands oil from Canada, brought into the area by rail.
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Tar sands refinery expanding just south of Chicago
April 23, 2013A Chicago Earth Day rally protested construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and the threat tar sands oil poses to freshwater, air and climate. It was one of scores of actions held across the country.
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