Environment
U.S. economic system traps unions in the green vs. blue conflict
May 19, 2016The latest green vs. blue conundrum has taken the form of a dispute between labor leaders, and controversy has kicked in.
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Company halts bee-killing chemicals as activists stir up a hornet’s nest
May 18, 2016The movement to save the bees recently got a shot - or perhaps a sting - in the arm.
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Climate activists converge in Midwest on global day of action
May 17, 2016The event, one of hundreds held across the world, was held in Whiting, within sight of a BP oil refinery where workers struck over safety concerns last year.
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How to weather the next few years of climate change
May 3, 2016Our world is changing as we fiddle with climate change denier nonsense while watching the oceans rise, acidify and lose oxygen, and extreme drought and weather slap us.
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Labor Dept. to coal mine owners: Pay black lung victims’ claims, then appeal
April 29, 2016The old appeal policy left hundreds of thousands of coal miners, disabled from black lung disease, usually without a penny of benefits before they died.
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