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Cowboys and Indians fighting together this week against the XL Pipeline
April 22, 2014The Cowboy and Indian Alliance is marching on the Capitol in Washington for Earth Day today through April 27 to protest the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline.
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On fourth anniversary of Gulf disaster EPA lets BP off the hook
April 22, 2014Today is the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and dumped more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period in 2010.
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Today in eco-history: Wilderness explorer John Muir born
April 21, 2014Muir was a wilderness explorer and was the first Euro-American to explore Glacier Bay. In 1882 John Muir co-founded the Sierra Club with Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at UC Berkeley.
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Players and Northwestern to battle at NLRB after Apr. 25 vote
April 21, 2014College football players who want to unionize and their foe, Northwestern University, filed their written arguments with the NLRB on Apr. 16.
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Study: 57 percent of poultry workers suffer ergonomic ills
April 21, 2014NIOSH found what UFCW called "a drastic level of injury" to workers even at the present speeds.
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