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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Life at the End of the Pipeline: Fighting Tar Sands in Houston's East End
Can the climate justice and other U.S. social movements better support communities of color like Manchester, Texas, which are already bearing a disproportionate burden of tar sands refining, pollution and the illnesses that come with it?
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Rebelling Against Massive Use of Pesticides, Brazilians Shift To Organic Foods
One of the reasons Brazilians are now growing, selling and eating high quantities of organics is because the country is the biggest user of pesticides per capita in the world – an unfortunate distinction Brazil has held since 2008.
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Anti-GMO Victory: Senate to Kill Monsanto Protection Act Amid Outrage
In a major win brought upon by activism and public outrage, new legislation changes will shut down the Monsanto Protection Act rider that granted Monsanto protection from legal action.
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What are Facebook and Google Doing in Bed with Climate Deniers?
We propose the “No Deniers Rule” as a good starting place for any company that wants to be on the right side of history in the climate fight — that goes for the tech giants that falsely burnish green credentials while supporting climate destruction.
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Protesters Lock Down in D.C. Demanding Transparency for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Protesters concerned about the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership covered the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative with banners calling for a democratic process and a release of the treaty’s text.
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Revealed: Big Oil Lobbyists and Executives Dominate New Fracking Climate Study
Stacked with former and current oil industry lobbyists, the UT-Austin Steering Committee roster to study methane releases from fracking is proof positive of a conflict of interest in "frackademia."
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Scientists Issue Starkest Warning Yet With 5th IPPC Report on Earth's Climate
Scientists reveal the latest, most dangerous findings about global warming and its effects on our future in the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
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Coalitions March in 200 U.S. Cities to "Draw the Line" Against Keystone Pipeline
400 demonstrators marched through Manhattan's Financial District and surrounded the Keystone pipeline's largest financiers with a blue line to show where the waters of the Hudson and East River will soon lap.
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Exposed: Fracking in Floodplains Led to Major Oil Spill in Colorado River
Tanks used to store waste liquid from frack drilling operations were tipped over and damaged from the severe flooding that hit Colorado, exemplifying the danger of fracking in floodplains.
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Dozens of Greenpeace Activists Arrested at Gunpoint As Russians Storm Arctic Ship
Armed Russian military stormed the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship protesting against Gazprom oil exploitation in remote Arctic waters, arresting 25.
