Environment
The BP Texas City oil plant blast: What’s changed and what hasn’t
March 20, 2014Nine years ago, on March 23, 2005, the British Petroleum oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, an hour south of Houston, in so many words, blew up.
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Loss of life in Harlem the price paid for crumbling infrastructure
March 19, 2014It's no coincidence that the collapsed buildings were served by a 127 year-old gas main; those in the labor movement are feeling the unfortunate burden of vindication.
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Chicago residents fight to shut down petcoke operations
March 18, 2014Truth is stranger than fiction, so don't be surprised that the Koch Brothers, BP, and a web of multinationals have been hedging bets and kicking up dust on an industrial corridor of working-class neighborhoods between Chicago...
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Ohio “Frackgate” raises concerns about regulators
March 17, 2014The FOI request was prompted by Gov. John Kasich's failure to follow through on a 2011 law permitting fracking in Ohio's state parks.
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Building trades unions: Remake the nation’s infrastructure!
March 14, 2014With GOP opposition keeping the federal government from moving on Obama-backed legislation that would create massive numbers of jobs, the unions, at their legislative conference mapped out specific proposals to get the job done.
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