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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Profits or People: West Virginia's Chemical Spill and the Wakeup Call to America
From the explosion at the un-inspected fertilizer plant in West, Tex., which killed 15 people in April, to the mislabeled oil train that derailed and killed 47 in Quebec in July, industrial accidents due to lack of government oversight need to stop.
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Besides West Virginia, Oil and Gas Drilling Links to Water Pollution in 3 States
Pennsylvania has confirmed at least 106 water-well contamination cases from its more than 5,000 new fracking wells. Texas registered more than 2,000 contamination complaints, while 122 were filed in West Virginia and 190 in Ohio.
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Terror Charges Faced By Oklahoma Fossil Fuel Protesters "Outrageous"
The terror charges facing two environmental protesters who unfurled a banner and dropped glitter at an oil and gas company's office in Oklahoma are outrageous and egregious, their lawyer says.
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Humboldt Exclusive: As Pot Money Grows, the River Runs Dry
Growing weed in Northern California isn't what it used to be. Today's use of chemicals, cultivation on industrial-sized scale and the overuse of scarce water resources means that despite pot's quasi-legalization, growers may need to rethink.
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Bay Area Protests Underway to Stop WesPac-Pittsburg Oil Mega-Terminal
Demonstrators at Pittsburg, Calif., City Hall said that plans to store highly volatile crude oil imported from the Bakken fields of North Dakota – and even the Alberta tar sands – were unacceptable.
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Revealed: Food Industry Giants Try to Muscle Pro-GMO Federal Law Through Congress
The Grocery Manufacturers Association representing food and beverage leaders like ConAgra, PepsiCo and Kraft is pushing a federal law with non-mandatory labeling standards in an effort to kill GMO labeling initiatives across the country.
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Thousands of New Yorkers Rally Against Fracking at Gov. Cuomo’s State of State Address
Protesters representing more than 100 organizations highlighted the environmental and health dangers fracking would pose to the state, calling for a ban as the only way to protect New York’s water and the health of residents.
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Exposed: Shale Oil in North Dakota Train Explosion Had High Levels of Volatile Chemicals
Oil obtained via fracking in the Bakken Shale may be more chemically explosive than the agency or industry previously admitted publicly.
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London and Chinese Mining Companies Threaten to Tap Arctic's Greenland Minerals
Though there is currently no mining in pristine Greenland, but a new multinational project has received approval and could result in 3,000 construction workers moving into the country of 57,000 to build a port and pipeline for the mine.
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Judge: Exxon Faces Criminal Charges For 50,000 Gallon Frack Waste Spill
A recent ruling in Pennsylvania means the eight charges against Exxon subsidiary XTO Energy – including violations of both Pennsylvania's Clean Streams Law and the Solid Waste Management Act – could be felony offenses.
