environment
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Untrammeled capitalism helps make 2010 warmest year on record
Profit-driven capitalist production stops at nothing to maximize profits—and climate scientists show that the environmental impact is reaching dangerous proportions.
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Police provocateur exposed in sham trial of environmental activists
British prosecutors dropped charges against six environmentalist protesters on Jan. 10 after learning that an undercover police provocateur offered to…
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PSL WikiBrief: BP Azerbaijan disaster prefigured Deepwater Horizon catastrophe
PSL WikiBrief: BP Azerbaijan disaster prefigured Deepwater Horizon catastrophe
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BP sued in Ecuadoran courts for Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Environmentalists from several Latin American countries have filed a lawsuit against BP seeking damages from the April 20, 2010, Deepwater…
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Cables reveal extent of U.S. ‘bullying’ at Copenhagen climate meeting
The recent release of 250,000 confidential State Department cables by Wikileaks has exposed the cynical, self-serving motivations of U.S. foreign…
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Oil spill commission reveals massive failures by government, BP
The Presidential Oil Spill Commission, tasked with evaluating the BP oil spill, released two reports Nov. 22 that reveal a…
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New Paltz meeting on environment and war
A political meeting combining the issues of impending ecological collapse, endless wars and global poverty drew 167 people--over half of…
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Corporations want to keep carbon emissions secret:
Corporations are fighting a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency that would make public how much they pollute. It is…
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Profits over people: deepwater drilling to resume
The Obama administration has lifted the moratorium on deepwater drilling put into place in May after the April 20 oil-rig…
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National protest against mountaintop removal mining
Hundreds of people from West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and elsewhere protested in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27 as part…
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