All News Articles for 2015-05-01
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New Oil-By-Rail Rules 'Leave Communities at Risk of Catastrophe' Obama administration announces mandate for safer cars, brakes on oil trains, but climate groups decry regulations as too lax Read more |
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Corporate Bedfellows: Parks Service and Budweiser Team Up in Dubious 'Co-Branding' Scheme 'It is both telling and troubling that the current National Park Service leadership sees its core values best reflected in beer ads' Read more |
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Fracking Titans Bankrolling Right-Wing Indoctrination Effort in Schools: Investigation New research by RH Reality Check finds ultra-conservative Prager University, which creates right-wing curricula, receives funds from fracking investors Read more |
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Anti-Science GOP 'Eviscerates' NASA Spending on Climate Change Research NASA administrator says proposal 'guts' crucial Earth science program and 'threatens to set back generations worth of progress in better understanding our changing climate' Read more |
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Crackdown in Maldives as Thousands Demand Freedom for Ousted President In largest demonstration since jailing of president Mohamed Nasheed, protesters met with tear gas, stun guns, and mass arrest Read more |
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Poll Reveals Widespread Support for US Drone Program 'That Doesn't Exist' Even more troubling, close to half of all respondents said they would back drone strikes where law-abiding Americans were possible collateral damage Read more |
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'First Step' Toward Justice: Six Baltimore Cops Charged in Freddie Gray Case State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Gray asked for medical attention twice during a ride between the site of his arrest and a police booking center Read more |
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'We Have Each Other's Backs': May Day Rallies Highlight Black Lives Matter Movement 'It's not just one of us, it's all of us.' Read more |
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Who's the Most Hawkish on Iran? Race to Kill Diplomacy Continues Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) throw new torpedo at diplomatic process Read more |
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As Planet Warms, One in Six Species Face Total Extinction: Study New study shows that window of opportunity is fast closing for humanity to save planet's ability to support life on Earth as we've known it Read more |