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Duke Energy Lobbied Hard Against Coal Ash Safety – Then Gave Us the Dan River Spill
If the EPA had acted quickly and assertively, Duke would have been required to clean up unlined dumps like the one currently spilling into the Dan River.
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Massive Coal Ash Spill Chokes North Carolina River as E.P.A. Considers Waste Rules
A ruptured Duke Energy pipe in Eden, N.C., caused the release of up to 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated water into the Dan River.
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Shell's Pullout From Arctic Casts Doubts on Future of American Fossil Fuel Investing
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant announced a sweeping strategic overhaul that suspends its Alaskan drilling program, and admits it jumped "too quickly" into fracking exploration in the U.S.
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A Midwest Republican Senator Crusades Against the Corruption of Money In Politics
“I have always thought business should have access to the public square – I never thought anybody should be able to buy the public square, and that’s where we’re at right now."
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Global Scientists Rebuke F.C.T. Journal For "Censorship" After Rat-Tumor GM Monsanto Study Expelled
83 top scientists say the decision by the editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology to retract a paper that found GM corn and the Monsanto pesticide Roundup damaged the organs of rats was represents conflicts of interest and sets a dangerous precedent.
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Why Washington’s Polarization and Gridlock Work to Enrich the 1%
Washington gridlock helps the super-rich stay rich, and get richer. And the richer they get, the more the gridlock actually helps them.
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More Than Half Million Americans Enter Movement to Stop Trans-Pacific Partnership
The swift, social media-fueled campaign has been embraced by 120 organizations.
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This Is What Prosperity for Main Street – Not Wall Street – Looks Like
Taxpayers are paying more to the financiers of projects than to those who supplied the materials and actually committed the labor to building them. Are you O.K. with Wall Street bankers sucking prosperity from our communities?
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Corruption Report Slams E.U. Countries for $162 Billion "Abuse of Power for Private Gain"
The first-ever E.U.-wide study on corruption found that the billions lost annually to padded government contracts, covert political financing and bribes for health care could fund the entire E.U. budget.
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Big Banks Exit the Payday Loan Business
Several big banks are exiting the small dollar, short-term loan business after federal regulators warned that they would look into whether these high-interest, payday-like loans violate consumer protection laws.
