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Act Out! [92] - Why Texas Politics Matter To You & The Pipeline Fight in Your Backyard
An Army veteran walks us through her time at Standing Rock, and Chris Hedges offers a ray of hope through the clouds of depressive realism.
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The Economics of Climate Change: Crash or Transformation?
A former regulator of the Bank of England, Paul Fisher, recently admitted that climate change could trigger the next financial crisis – a radical admission and an astute one, given the colliding factors threatening our system.
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New Yale Study Confrims Fracking Linked to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
An expansive new analysis by Yale School of Public Health researchers confirms that numerous carcinogens involved in the controversial practice of fracking have potential to contaminate air and water in nearby communities.
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Local Bans on Fracking Hang in the Balance in Colorado Ballot Fight
Funded largely by the oil and gas industry, Amendment 71 would put big hurdles in Colorado's relatively easy path to changing its state constitution.
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Act Out! [85] - The Land of the Free-ish: Climate Fight & Voting Rights in Our Nation’s Capital
This week, the climate fight in the devil's den clashes with free speech.
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Act Out! [84] - The One Thing That Can Stop Climate Devastation and Inside the Sick Care System
This week, climate change might not be a thing on the presidential stage, but it's definitely a thing outside our sick mirage democracy.
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650,000 American Children Attend School Within 1 Mile of a Fracking Site
In the nine states examined in a new report, 1,947 child care facilities, 1,376 schools, 236 nursing care providers and 103 hospitals are located within a one-mile radius of fracked wells across the U.S.
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After Landmark Ruling Allows Fracking In Lancashire, U.K. Gears for Direct Action Protests
“We’ve exhausted every democratic process available to us – the petitions, the planning objections, the lobbying of MPs, the public meetings," said Tina Rothery, who predicts a new wave of direct actions will follow.
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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
Environmentalists are warning the agency that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf is in violation of federal law.
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Recalculating the Climate Math
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.
