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Sandra Steingrabers Manifesto: Illinois Fracking Rules a Betrayal of Democracy and Science
2013-06-07 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
YES! Magazine: A new salvo has been fired in the national battle against fracking. Within hours of the Illinois General Assembly`s vote on its controversial bill on hydraulic fracking last Friday night, the Associated Press's headline rippled across nationwide newspapers: "Illinois lawmakers approve nation`s toughest fracking regulations." Not so fast, says Dr. Sandra Steingraber, the renowned scientist whom Rolling Stone has called the "toxic avenger." She returned to her native Illinois last week to join...
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In Age of Electronic Democracy, Keystone Voices Get Wide Audience
2013-05-28 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Stu Luttich of Geneva, Neb. is just one of the thousands of ordinary Americans who sat down in early March and gave the State Department their two cents worth on the Keystone XL pipeline. Luttich has what he calls "some ground" in Nebraska that he'd like to restore to native grassland, and he works with other Nebraskans trying to do the same thing. So when the State Department opened its 45-day public comment period on the Keystone draft environmental impact statement, he offered his take on the...
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How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy
2013-05-10 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In a surprise move, the eight Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday blocked a floor vote on President Obama`s nominee, Gina McCarthy, as U.S. EPA Administrator. In doing so the Republican senators broke their earlier promise to move McCarthy`s nomination if she answered an unprecedented 1,079 written questions, a quest she completed. Political observers assume the Republican roadblock is meant to derail or delay the implementation of a new EPA rule, promised...
Commentary: Ag bill serves Monsanto, not democracy
2013-04-07 23:54:49| Chemicals - Topix.net
DES MOINES, Iowa -- In the budget bill signed by President Barack Obama last week to avoid a federal government shutdown, there is a noxious provision slipped in at the last minute in the U.S. House of Representatives' agricultural appropriations bill.
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Democracy in Action as Fracking is Voted Down in Colorado Springs
2013-03-29 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them. --Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772 Colorado Springs is Colorado`s second largest city. Perhaps unfairly, it is also known nationally as a bastion of conservative politics. Yet, a little over a week ago, on March 12, conservative and liberal--indeed people from every shade in the political spectrum--found common cause. They stood united...
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