Environment

Nurses demand that State Department vouch for safety of XL pipeline

March 13, 2014 By Special to People’s World

The NNU believes the State Department has done an indequate review of what appears to be serious risks for public health posed by the pipeline.

Animals: Thinking, feeling, and emotional individuals

March 12, 2014 By Rebecca Bolte

"I cannot see an animals' expression - eyes, behavior, purring, etc. - and convince myself that it's anything other than a thinking, feeling, emotional individual."

Scientists warn California could experience megadrought

March 11, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Although the storm system that brought precipitation to LA is going to help combat the drought in the short-term, weather officials don't believe it will have a lasting effect. The drought is a product of climate...

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Is Los Angeles poised to ban fracking?

March 7, 2014 By Blake Skylar

It would halt all forms of "extreme well stimulation," including fracking, and require an independent multi-agency study be conducted exploring the economic, environmental, and health impacts of such drilling operations.

Hundreds arrested at White House in XL pipeline protest

March 5, 2014 By John Bachtell

In a dramatic sign of growing opposition to construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, 398 students were arrested March 2 after they chained themselves to the White House fence.