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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People, Americans: Don’t Look to Government to Solve the Climate Crisis
Solutions exist to mitigate climate change and build systems that allow us to adapt to its harshest impacts – but the answers won’t be coming from above.
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Lobster Boat Blockade: Two Activists Stand Trial After Helping Close Down a Coal Plant
Environmental direct action will get a big legal test in Massachusetts next week when two men who temporarily blocked 40,000 tons of coal from reaching New England's largest coal-fired power plant stand trial.
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Even As Fracking Cash Pours In, North Dakota's Universities Crumble
The state is struggling to finance deteriorating public schools even as it experiences the biggest energy boom in its history.
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Climate Alarm Is Ringing – And Until Now the United Nations Has Failed To Act
Tackling the influence of Big Industry and financiers over the UN is now the prime focus.
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Will New York Protests At U.N. Be the Last Gasp for Climate Change Liberals?
Resistance will come from those willing to breach police barricades. Resistance will mean jail time and direct confrontation. Resistance will mean physically disrupting the corporate machinery.
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U.S. Energy Commission Sneaks Permit to Canada's Enbridge for Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility
The announcement came days after the State Department gave Enbridge a controversial permit to transport 350,000 barrels of tar sands per day across the U.S.-Canada border without public hearings or environmental review.
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Brazil’s “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest” Faces Death Threats
Davi Kopenawa, the leader of the Yanomami people in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, who is internationally renowned for his struggle against encroachment on indigenous land by landowners and illegal miners, is now fighting a new battle – this time against
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Four Reasons America’s Solar Revolution Is Winning – And Has Only Just Begun
One exciting driver behind the surge in rooftop solar systems has been the plummeting costs – along with the innovative ways people are getting solarized.
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Can A Unified Movement Confront the Climate Crisis This September In New York?
We are in a global battle of the people versus the plutocrats and this battle has a ticking timer called the climate crisis.
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Oregon Delivers Defeat to Coal Industry Denying Key Permit for Export Terminal
The Morrow Pacific coal terminal would have not only encouraged CO2-emitting coal to be burned elsewhere, but would pollute local waterways and increase rail and truck traffic in once restful regions.
