safety
Mine waste spill fouls water in Colorado and New Mexico
August 11, 2015The 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.
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Dissident journalists persecuted in Mexico
August 10, 2015Ruben Espinosa was evidently on a special list because of his photojournalism activities, including the investigation of a previous murder of a journalist.
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Today in labor history: Reagan fires air traffic controllers
August 5, 2015"After 1981, Reagan and his followers willingly donned the mantle of union-busters." The firing of air traffic controllers was just the beginning.
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“La Bestia” victims call for immigration reform
July 27, 2015Hernández lost his left leg and arm and part of his right hand when he fell from the top of a moving freight train while trying to reach the U.S. - he was desperate.
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Will damaged vessel put the freeze on Shell’s Arctic drilling?
July 14, 2015This incident offers further vindication for what environmentalists have been saying all along: that accidents are unavoidable in this ecologically sensitive region.
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