Environment
Blue-Green Alliance demands congressional action on clean energy jobs
August 16, 2010A coalition of unions and environmental groups launched a campaign this week to overcome Republican roadblocks to clean energy jobs and climate legislation.
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What catastrophe are we waiting for?
August 16, 2010Global climate change is putting humanity's most basic, most elemental needs increasingly at risk.
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Hot summer? It’s going to get worse
August 13, 2010The sweltering heat has been off the charts this summer for much of the East Coast, but it's going to get worse, and we're very ill equipped to deal with what's coming.
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BP admits guilt in Texas City safety violations
August 13, 2010BP has finally agreed to pay millions in fines and repairs for its deadly 2005 refinery blast - but the whole industry is "a mess," the Steelworkers union says.
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UN water vote seen as triumph for Bolivia’s Morales
August 12, 2010Bolivia's president won praise July 28 when the UN General Assembly approved a groundbreaking Bolivian resolution on the right of all human beings to water and sanitation.
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