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Trumka draws line in the sand on health care

September 2, 2009 By John Wojcik

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Richard Trumka, has drawn a line in the sand on health care reform, saying that Congress must include a strong public plan option in the final bill in order for labor to back it.

EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant

September 2, 2009 By Susan Webb

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, EPA head Lisa Jackson announced on Monday. That action would trigger federal regulation of industrial CO2 sources like coal-fired power plants, cars, refineries...

What’s behind the widening of our waistlines?

September 1, 2009 By John Wojcik

Love handles and bulging waistlines are a big problem in America that can only be solved, a growing number of politicians are telling us, with some hefty “fat taxes.”

Hospitals still unprepared for swine flu

September 1, 2009 By John Wojcik

A survey of 190 American hospitals compiled by nurses in eight different states shows that hospitals across the nation are not ready for the coming H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic. The findings were released this week by...

Immigrant deaths on Arizona border rise

September 1, 2009 By Joe Bernick

With five weeks left in the fiscal year the number of human remains recovered on the Arizona-Sonora border since October 1, 2008 has reached 183 already surpassing last year's death toll.