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Rail workers score big safety win in California

August 26, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Rail unions have been pushing for two-person crews while rail carriers have been pushing for just one, an engineer.

First tar sands mine to open for business in Utah

August 21, 2015 By Brady McCombs

"It's heartbreaking. It's impossible to reclaim and rehabilitate the land once they do what they are planning to do with it."

Here’s why close collaboration between NSA and AT&T matters

August 20, 2015 By Julia Angwin, ProPublica And Jeff Larson, ProPublica

New disclosures about the NSA's partnership with AT&T could reignite constitutional challenges to the spy agency's efforts to wiretap the Internet.

OSHA proposes cutting worker exposure to beryllium by 90 percent

August 19, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Beryllium is a heavy metal whose inhalation causes a chronic lung disease and may lead to lung cancer.

Mine waste spill fouls water in Colorado and New Mexico

August 11, 2015 By Blake Skylar

The latest ecological disaster left the Animas River a sickly color, after an accident on Aug. 5 sent at least three million gallons of mine waste gushing into the water.