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Stand Up New York: Fighting Fracking

The story of the fight over hydraulic fracturing--hydrofracking or "fracking"--for natural gas in New York contains some familiar villains, it turns out. It was Dick Cheney's Halliburton that discovered the technique, and Cheney's pressure that got it ...
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Maude Barlow: Running out of Water

Despite what you learned in science class in school, Maude Barlow says, it is in fact possible for the Earth to be running out of water. Pollution and population are on the rise, and corporations encroach on the water rights of people around the world, fencing off and bottling up a natural resource that should be available to all.
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Maude Barlow, Greg Palast, and Americans with Disabilities

Despite what you learned in science class in school, Maude Barlow says, it is in fact possible for the Earth to be running out of water. Pollution and population are on the rise, and corporations encroach on the water rights of people around the world, fencing off and bottling up a natural resource that should be available to all.
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Evacuation Underway as Storm Heads to Gulf Spill Site

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - A tropical storm barreling towards the Gulf of Mexico oil spill site Friday forced crews to suspend operations and halt work to permanently plug the gushing BP well.Admiral Thad Allen, the US official overseeing the spill respo...
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Multinational Company Trafigura Found Guilty of Exporting Toxic Waste

A Dutch court has found multinational Trafigura guilty of illegally exporting toxic waste from Amsterdam and concealing the nature of the cargo. In 2006, Trafigura transported waste alleged to have been involved in the injury of thousands of...
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US Senate Drops Bill to Cap Carbon Emissions

by Haroon Siddique and agencies A major climate change bill that would have capped carbon emissions has been abandoned by Democrats in the US Senate in the face of opposition from both sides of the house.Under pressure from falling popularity ratings, ...
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EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup

With BP having poured nearly two million gallons of the dispersant known as Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico, many lawmakers and advocacy groups say the Obama administration is not being candid about the lethal effects of dispersants. We speak with Hugh...
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Fishing Families in Gulf Region Turn to Fast Food, ‘Grind Meats’

by Vicki Smith POINTE A LA HACHE, La.  -- Grow up on the water, the children of southern Louisiana learn, and you'll never go hungry. As long as you can toss a line, a net or a trap, you can eat - and eat well.Or you could, until now.read more
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BP Says Oil Has Stopped

BP engineers on Thursday stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April as they shut all valves on a new cap placed on top of a fractured wellhead, a BP official said."It is good to see no oil going into the Gulf of Mex...
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Natural Gas No Quick Fix for U.S. Energy Woes

Washington, D.C.-In the wake of April's calamitous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, pundits are pointing to natural gas as the resource to save the U.S. from its energy woes. But a new report released today by the national consumer advocacy group Fo...
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