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Feds Launch Criminal Probe of N.C. Agency After Coal Ash Spill
Gov. Pat McCrory, a former head of Duke Energy, has thus far blocked a probe into the spill.
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E-Flex Lobby Coalition Uses Industry Muscle to Fight Health Reform Law
Groups with friendly-sounding names represent corporate interests.
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After Fracking Blast in Pennsylvania, Chevron Offers Pizza
A Chevron well in the preparation stages for fracking exploded last week in Pennsylvania, causing a fire that lasted for four days.
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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See
A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.
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Impunity in West Virginia As Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them – one of many company crimes for which managers should be behind bars.
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$100 Million Fraudulent Army Recruiting Program Implicates U.S. Generals and Colonels
Army officials appearing before a Senate hearing revealed a huge criminal network involving 200 U.S. officers, who collected illegal “bounty” money from U.S. taxpayers by recruiting more soldiers to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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It's Drought and Climate Change – Not Pot Growers – Killing the Salmon in Humboldt
Without rain in California, the water level won't rise, and so the salmon have spawned here, in water that is too warm, too full of sediment and too shallow.
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On Founders and Keepers of Occupy Wall Street
Last week, a power struggle within an Occupy collective emerged into the public realm when one member took sole ownership of the @OccupyWallSt Twitter handle.
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Global Scientists Rebuke F.C.T. Journal For "Censorship" After Rat-Tumor GM Monsanto Study Expelled
83 top scientists say the decision by the editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology to retract a paper that found GM corn and the Monsanto pesticide Roundup damaged the organs of rats was represents conflicts of interest and sets a dangerous precedent.
