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Shell’s Arctic drilling: The environmental battle of our time
July 3, 2012On July 27, two Shell vessels departed from Seattle, en route to the Arctic's Beaufort and Chukchi seas -- and the fragile ecosystems that lay within.
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Mexican elections: fraud again?
July 3, 2012It appears that the candidate of the formerly dominant Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), former Mexico state governor Enrique Peña Nieto, has won, but not by as much as he hoped.
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Calif. legislature passes far-reaching homeowner safeguards
July 3, 2012With the legislature's passage July 2 of a far-reaching Homeowner's Bill of Rights, California is moving to lead the country in the fight against foreclosure abuse.
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Today in history: Birthday of Ruth Crawford Seeger
July 3, 2012Today, July 3rd 1903 Ruth Crawford Seeger, step mother of Pete Seeger, was born. Ruth Seeger was an accomplished peoples artist in her own right, and was a folk singer, musician and an expert historian of...
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Hoffa and Brown try to put brakes on Pacific trade pact
July 2, 2012With the Obama administration moving ahead with negotiations with Pacific Rim nations, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Teamsters President James Hoffa teamed up.
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