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“No more bomb trains”: environmental groups sue over weak regulations
May 20, 2015"Another derailment and explosion of a train carrying oil. We need to get these exploding death trains off the tracks."
Read moreProtesters set up “Raunerville” outside Illinois governor’s penthouse
May 14, 2015Nearly 200 Chicagoans rallied in front of the building where Gov. Rauner owns a lakefront penthouse.
Read moreTrumka: CEOs are the new royalty in America
May 14, 2015CEOs of the largest corporations received a 16 percent pay raise in 2014, while the pay gap between CEOs and the typical worker widened to 373-to-1.
Read moreBaltimore United for Change takes root
May 13, 2015As Freddie Gray lay dying in Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a group of activists was planning to curb police brutality in Baltimore.
Read moreChilling news: U.S. to allow Arctic oil drilling
May 12, 2015Shell's dabbling in the Chukchi Sea, most feel, is now inevitable; for the moment, the Beaufort Sea won't be touched, but even that could change.
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