Nexen-owned pipeline spills an estimated five million litres of bitumen, sand and water in Alberta A pipeline at Nexen’s Long Lake oilsands project in northeastern
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Human beings and nature must not be at the service of money… Let us say no to an economy of exclusion and inequality, where money
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Enlighten those who possess power and money that they may avoid the sin of indifference, that they may love the common good, advance the weak,
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George Lakoff: Pope Francis’ new encyclical is a model for how progressives should reframe Linguist George Lakoff has posted a must-read discussion of the English
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Earth entering new extinction phase, new study finds A new study jointly conducted by three American universities has found that the Earth has entered a
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I hope I’m not going to get castigated for saying this by my priest back home, but I don’t get economic policy from my bishops
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Scientists are coming up with ‘last ditch’ remedies to mitigate climate crisis With humanity making little progress combating the climate crisis, some scientists are toying
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Republican pledges $175 million to push party to take climate crisis seriously A North Carolina executive is pouring his own money into an effort to
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Politico takes an in-depth look at the success of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign Republicans like Mitch McConnell of Kentucky have repeatedly and continually
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Rachel Maddow reports breaking news of an oil pipeline rupture at Refugio Beach near Santa Barbara, California that has created an oil slick along 4 miles of coast and threatens popular El Capitan State Beach.
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Seattle port commissioners vote to ‘delay’ Shell: Ships still inbound The Seattle P-I’s Joel Connelly reports on the fallout from today’s Port Commission meeting, at
LaunchRenewed grassroots push begins in the plains to block Keystone XL
Renewed grassroots push begins in the plains to block Keystone XL The New York Times reports on the organizing being done in South Dakota to
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Makers of unhealthy, processed food starting to change their ways The New York Times recaps a string of developments that are poised to have a
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The New York Times is once again giving conservative Catholic voices based in the United States a platform with which to attack Pope Francis. The
LaunchWashington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters
Washington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters In one of the finest pieces that Bloomberg has ever published, journalist Bill Donahue explains
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Excerpt from transcript: Here in the Everglades, you can see the effect of a changing climate. As sea levels rise, salty water from the ocean
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Oklahoma concedes that wastewater wells cause quakes The Republican-dominated government of Oklahoma conceded today that science has conclusively demonstrated that the underground disposal of wastewater
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Here’s what China closing coal-fired power plants means for emissions The world’s most populous country has decided to shut down a number of extremely dirty,
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In plain sight: How the Marathassa oil spill took hours to find A fuel spill in Vancouver’s picturesque English Bay has raised serious questions about
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Big Oil is about to lose control of the auto industry A pollution-free revolution is about to shake up the automobile industry, resulting in cars
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The U.S. House “Anti-Science” Committee: What climate crisis? The Seattle Post-Intelligencer‘s Joel Connelly shares highlights from the opening address delivered by U.S. Representative Derek Kilmer
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