Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Crashing the Party at Davos: It's Time to Seize Power on the Mountaintop
Humanity does have a chance at survival: it just lies at much lower altitudes in the social hierarchy than the crowd now patting themselves on the back at the World Economic Form in Davos.
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Wake Up Before It Is Too Late: Lessons From a U.N. Sustainability Report
Last year's UN Conference on Trade and Development study offers a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and strategic approaches to deal with hunger and poverty, poor health and nutrition, climate change and environmental sustainability.
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Suppressing Science, Supporting Monsanto: An Academic Journal Retracts
Scientific journal publishing reached a low point in November, when the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology
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Media Coverage Or No, The Winds of Climate Change Are Upon Us
The extreme storms recently battering Britain and Europe suggest you don't need to look as far as the Arctic to see climate change’s onset. Why does the media still refuse to cover this crisis?
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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.
