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    National Poll Says America Wants the EPA

    OCTOBER 21, 2011 9:49PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: mom clean air force, clean air act, us chamber of commerce, american lung association, mercury, environmental justice, particulate matter, national health, american health, epa scientists, corporate polluters, natural resources defense council, asthma, national poll, latina women's vote, environment, ozone pollution standard, obama, league of women voters, league of united latin american citizens, 2012 battleground states, public policy polling, environmental protection agency, epa

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 673 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Asthma and Clean Air: One Mother’s Fight in Texas

    AUGUST 2, 2011 12:36PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: dick durbin, joe cornyn, kay bailey hutchison, erin brockovich, american lung association, hazaardous waste, barack obama, txi company, ash grove cement company, mercury, lead, midlothian george bush, texas, alexandra allred, moms clean air force, mercury and air toxics rule, epa, toxic pollution, clean air, asthma

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    • 5 Ratings
    • 509 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Fracking in New York State — Is the Train Out of the Station

    JUNE 15, 2011 8:59PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: methane gas, methane industry, american energy consumption, environmental justice, epa, spectra pipeline, halliburton loophole, gasland, weston wilson, robert howarth, sandra steingraber, craig unger, hydro-fracking water defense, fracking

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 658 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    One Year After The BP Spill

    APRIL 20, 2011 1:52AM

    By Progressive Liberal


    Topics: bp spill, transocean, boycott, federal government, epa, oil

    • Editor's Pick
    • 62 Ratings
    • 3212 Views
    • 56 Comments
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    President Palin’s First Ten Days in Office

    MARCH 30, 2011 10:50AM

    By john blumenthal


    Topics: dept. of energy, epa, memoirs, mop, misplaced broom, press conference, glenn beck, dancing with the stars, geronimo, cherokee headress, john boehner, sexy eyes, bad hair day, ten dollar bill, alexander hamilton, ronald reagan's face, ulysses s. grant, michelle bachmann, secretary of god, newt gingrich, shooting random animals, ski lodge, a woman named betty, map of the united states, christine o'donnell, treasury secretary, shotgun, jesus, justice roberts, bible

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    • 8 Ratings
    • 3257 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    The New American Dream Give Us All Gain, No Pain

    MARCH 25, 2011 3:49PM

    By Reiko Eoh


    Topics: coal, donald_trump, epa, julian_assange, citizen's_rights, charlie_sheen, health_care_reform, oil, nuclear_power, federal_budget, president_obama, middle_east, gaddafi, american_dream, cartoon_saturday, politics, news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2084 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    “Green” Gas Drilling? No Fracking Way

    MARCH 3, 2011 8:29AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: u.s. energy policy, chemical contamination of drinking water, wastewater treatment for radioactivity, radioactive drinking water, epa, pennsylvania department of environmental protection, jamie legenos, gas drilling in pennsylvania, pennsylvania gas boom, environmental reporting, pulitzer contenders, new york times, “regulation lax as gas wells’ tainted water hits rivers”, ian urbina, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, fracking, energy, environment, economy, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 2501 Views
    • 61 Comments
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    Oil Spill Lessons: Scientists are a limited commodity

    JULY 19, 2010 2:24PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: science funding, government science funding, epa, noaa, noaa withholding information, huffington post, bp, gulf oil spill, oil leak

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    • 10 Ratings
    • 9084 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    The End of Mountaintop Removal Mining? It’s Complicated.

    APRIL 8, 2010 8:30AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: ohio valley environmental coalition, vivian stockman mountaintop removal mining, lisa jackson, coal mining, upper branch mine, environmental protection agency, epa, conductivity, west virginia highlands conservancy, cindy rank, appalachian center for the economy and the environment, joe lovett, west virginia economy, u.s. army corps of engineers, environment, west virginia, joe manchin, mining disaster, coal river, wendell berry, don blankenship, massey energy, mtr, u.s. energy policy, clean coal, there is no such thing as clean coal, politics, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 818 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Climate Bill to Cost Consumers 1/17 of What Critics Project

    JUNE 26, 2009 10:13AM

    By J.E. Robertson


    Topics: lcv, epa, hr 2454, cap and trade, emissions, climate change, legislation, climate

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1441 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    The Auto Task Force: Bigger, Better, and Greener

    JUNE 1, 2009 10:18PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: barack obama, george w. bush, politics, environment, economy, car czar, auto taskforce, ray lahood, gary locke, christina romer, austan goolsbee, carol browner, steven rattner, gm, g.m., big three, auto bailout, beep beep, larry summers, nec, cea, epa, transportation, commerce, treasury

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