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Environmentalists, railroad workers protest oil trains
July 15, 2015Environmentalists and rank-and-file railroad workers took to the streets protesting continued transportation of oil trains.
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Major nuclear deal struck between Iran and six world powers
July 15, 2015It is the most significant development between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement between the two nations.
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After nine-year star trek, NASA spacecraft passes Pluto
July 14, 2015Applause erupted at NASA's New Horizons control center in the wake of the eponymous spacecraft's flyby of Pluto.
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Will damaged vessel put the freeze on Shell’s Arctic drilling?
July 14, 2015This incident offers further vindication for what environmentalists have been saying all along: that accidents are unavoidable in this ecologically sensitive region.
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Today in labor history: Ode to a labor troubadour, Woody Guthrie
July 14, 2015He wasn't afraid to tackle the problems that workers and unionists faced, while bucking up their spirits, by singing about the people, you and me.
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