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Pro-Fracking Greens Called Out in Sandra Steingraber's New Manifesto 9.6.2013 Commondreams.org Views
Jeff Biggers

A new salvo has been fired in the national battle against fracking.

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Colo. County A National Leader In Domestic Drone Use 7.6.2013 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
From The Colorado Independent's Susan Greene. A county in western Colorado has embraced domestic police drones in an era when states are increasingly limiting use...
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Oakland, Calif., Joins National Call for Action Against Climate Chaos 6.6.2013 Commondreams.org Newswire

Oakland, Calif., has joined 60 other U.S.

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Maddow: The Right Has A 'Nonsense Problem' 5.6.2013 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Rachel Maddow offered another blistering critique of the Republican Party on her show Tuesday night, and its heavy reliance on media personalities to spread misinformation...
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Tom Hayden: Jerry Brown's Energy Diplomacy 4.6.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Gov. Jerry Brown is accelerating his California energy diplomacy with China as President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping begin private discussions in California this week on managing the two powers' growing geo-strategic tensions.
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Lautenberg's Legacy Includes Ban On Smoking In Airplanes 4.6.2013 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- In 1987 and 1988, domestic air travelers who didn't want to inhale secondhand cigarette smoke had only one option: find flights that lasted...
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Mitt Romney Jabs Obama's 'Extraordinary Disappointment' 31.5.2013 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Mitt Romney, who has largely kept quiet since the 2012 presidential election, took a jab at the man who beat him in the race for...
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Stagnant Air, Emissions Contribute to Poor Air Quality in New England 31.5.2013 Environmental News Network
Stagnant Air, Emissions Contribute to Poor Air Quality in New England
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Lawsuit Filed to Help Communities Fight Power Plant Air Pollution 30.5.2013 Commondreams.org Newswire

Public advocates went to court today to ensure California citizens have full access to the legal system to protect themselves from power plant air pollution and have a say about where and when new plants are built. Today’s lawsuit aims to affirm citizens’ constitutionally guaranteed right to judicial review of permits issued by the California Energy Commission for polluting power plants.

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Imposing Syria 'No Fly Zone' Would Be Act of War, Warn Critics 29.5.2013 CommonDreams.org Headlines

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Rand Paul: Drone Targeting Process Is Just Obama 'Looking At Some Flashcards' 26.5.2013 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday he appreciated that President Barack Obama had responded to criticism of his drone program in a speech...
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Timothy Beardson: Action Needed on the Environment 24.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
China's environmental problems are immense, not least those connected to its voracious and inefficient use of coal. In 2011, for example, the country used almost half of global coal consumption, although its economy is still around half the size of the U.S.
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Art Markman, Ph.D.: Who Rejects Evidence of Global Climate Change? 24.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
What kinds of people are prone to reject the scientific evidence for global climate change? This question was explored in the May 2013 issue of Psychological Science. These researchers suggest that people typically engage in motivated reasoning.
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Screening Houses for Vapor Intrusion Risks: A Multiple Regression Analysis Approach (Cached) 23.5.2013 pubs.acs.org

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Environmental Science & Technology
DOI: 10.1021/es4003795
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Climate Change-Related Heat Deaths To Spike In New York City, Study Projects 21.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
From Climate Central's Andrew Freedman: An increasing number of New Yorkers are likely to die from heat-related causes as global warming causes more extreme heat...
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Finalize Tier 3 Tailpipe Standards -- For Our Kids, Our Health, and Our Future 21.5.2013 TreeHugger
New vehicle emission and fuel standards proposed by the EPa will reduce pollution, save gas, protect public health, and create jobs.
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Israeli Attacks on Syria Escape Security Council Scrutiny 11.5.2013 CommonDreams.org Headlines
Critics argue that the silence of the Security Council constitutes an international green light to Israel to continue with its new policy and military aggression against Syria. (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas) UNITED NATIONS - Israel, which has launched three air strikes inside Syria since January this year, has escaped scrutiny or condemnation by a Security Council which remains sharply divided. read ...
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Homeland Insecurity: Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man 9.5.2013 Commondreams.org Views
Peter Van Buren

A scene from "War on Whistleblowers." (Handout / April 25, 2013)What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apart from the now clichéd Orwellian twists that turn brutal torture into mere enhanced interrogation, the devil is in the details.

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Peter Van Buren: Homeland Insecurity 9.5.2013 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Robert MacLean is a former air marshal fired for an act of whistleblowing. His is an all-too-twenty-first-century story that shows us how deep the Washington rabbit hole really goes.
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Gernot Wagner: Benefits of Clean Air and Water Dwarf Costs 10 to 1 8.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
These omissions and shortcomings on either side of the equation only stand to bolster the most important claim: benefits outweigh costs more than 10 to 1 for all major EPA regulations adopted in the past decade.
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