Tag: united states
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Will Climate Hawk Kerry Have the Courage to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline?
THINKPROGRESS — Does this sound like a man who is going to launch his term as Secretary of State approving the expansion of one of the dirtiest sources of fossil fuels in the world? His repetition of the word “courage” makes it sound like …
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Groundbreaking Reports Show Fracking is a Risky Short-Term Bubble
ECOWATCH — Hughes and Rogers suggest the fracking boom may be a costly, risky, short-term “fix” for America’s long-term dependency on depleting oil and gas. Rather than offering the nation a century of cheap energy and economic prosperity, fracking may instead …
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Prevention as Cure: Breast Cancer and the Environment
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND — Breast cancer is largely a preventable disease. To reduce the risks of chemical exposures, we need tests that accurately detect breast carcinogens, and we need policies that demand …
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Does the ‘Horsemeat Scandal’ have You Thinking Differently About What You Eat?
GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL — So while the horse meat issue has created a small earthquake for the food system, we need a seismic shift that will change the current broken food system into a functional one. This would be a system based on …
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A Look Inside Climate Deniers’ Secret Piggy Bank
GREENPEACE — For those familiar with the effort of ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers to bankroll a network of organizations denying basic climate science, a new article in the Guardian offers some revelatory information on the secret funding network that outweighs even top denier sugar daddies like Koch and Exxon …