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Report Reveals Fracking Is Depleting Water Supplies in America's Driest Places
Of the nearly 40,000 oil and gas wells drilled in the U.S. since 2011, three-quarters were located in areas where water is scarce, and more than half in areas experiencing drought.
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Taibbi: The Vampire Squid Strikes Again – With Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet
Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever.
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How Long Can the Rich Keep Cheating the 99%?
America gained $16 trillion in financial wealth over the past 5 years, though most went to the very top economic rungs.
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Impunity in West Virginia As Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them – one of many company crimes for which managers should be behind bars.
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With Just 64 Mega Donors, Dark Money Runs the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
A new report has found that more than half of all 2012 financial contributions to the Chamber came from just a few dozen giant corporate donors.
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If the CIA Kills a U.S. Citizen, Amazon Becomes Partner in Assassination
Amazon signed a $600 million cloud-computing deal with the CIA making it responsible for keeping state secrets, aggregating data and helping with drone strikes.
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Doom By Dithering: Why Nobody Wants to Face the Real Costs of Living by the Water
Cheered on by the real estate and building industries, Congress has fought the reality of climate change on our coasts.
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Food Fights, States Rights – and the Demand for Health We Won’t Be Denied
Activists are forcing Monsanto, big biotech and the Grocery Manufacturers Association to go defensive – and now it’s time to win.
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Seeking Climatic Shift, U.K. Pension Investments Are Starting to Undercut Big Oil
People invest money through pensions into industries that cause climate change, often unknowingly and against their own financial interest.
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As Pipeline Protests Surge, California Weighs Risks of Importing Tar Sands and Fracked Gas
Four proposed oil-refinery projects in Northern California will likely increase the use of dirty tar sands crude from Canada and volatile oil fracked in North Dakota.
