The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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650,000 American Children Attend School Within 1 Mile of a Fracking Site
In the nine states examined in a new report, 1,947 child care facilities, 1,376 schools, 236 nursing care providers and 103 hospitals are located within a one-mile radius of fracked wells across the U.S.
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People Vs Big Oil, Part I: Washington Victory Over Shell Oil Trains Signals A Turning Tide
Until 2016, the oil industry had been able to play trains and pipelines off each other – now, both are under relentless attack by indigenous people, public interest groups, environmental activists and a growing public consciousness.
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The Time Is Now for Direct Action on Climate Change
We're in an emergency, and no one in power is treating it as such. What has a chance of waking politicians of their torpor and spurring them – spurring all of us – to act with the clarity and determination the situation requires?
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After Landmark Ruling Allows Fracking In Lancashire, U.K. Gears for Direct Action Protests
“We’ve exhausted every democratic process available to us – the petitions, the planning objections, the lobbying of MPs, the public meetings," said Tina Rothery, who predicts a new wave of direct actions will follow.
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The World Has Passed A Dangerous CO2 Pollution Threshold, But Climate Deniers Still Push U.S. Inaction
As we surpass dangerous CO2 pollution levels and the evidence of climate change is visible all over the U.S., we’re still a country ruled largely by climate change deniers. Worse still, we don’t seem all that concerned by that fact.
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Standing Rock Joins the World’s Indigenous Fighting For Land and Life
Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access water defenders recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with the world’s Indigenous Peoples.
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Standing Firm at Standing Rock: Why the Struggle is Bigger Than One Pipeline
For indigenous people, the fight to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline is about reviving a way of life.
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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
Environmentalists are warning the agency that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf is in violation of federal law.
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Recalculating the Climate Math
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.
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Despite Severe Climate Warnings, Pakistan Presses Ahead Full Scale With Coal
On its projected track, Pakistan will generate a total capacity of over 23,000 megawatts of electricity from coal in the next few years to overcome its steep energy requirements.
