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We won’t stop future Fergusons and floodwaters by planting a tree
Congressional leaders recently planted a tree at the nation's capitol to honor Emmett Till, whose killing sparked the civil rights movement. That's nice, but not enough.
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Obama’s immigration order won’t help farmworkers. What can?
As with everything in the good ol’ U S of A, corporations can have more power than government when it comes to the treatment of farmworkers!
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The public is wrong on climate, as it was on slavery, women’s rights
The latest polls show that Americans still just don't get it. But public opinion has always lagged on important issues.
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These terrible governors won reelection and will keep on wreaking environmental havoc
Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, Florida’s Rick Scott, and Maine’s Paul LePage were all vulnerable -- and they all triumphed anyway.
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Republicans were wrong about China’s climate commitment
The world's top emitter is pledging to cap coal use starting in 2020.
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The environmental movement is not the Tea Party of the left
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank asserts that enviros are dead set on ousting moderate Democrats. He's wrong.
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Lame-duck Democratic senators stop the Keystone bill. Will Obama follow their lead?
A Senate bill to force approval of the pipeline failed on Tuesday, coming up one vote short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster threat.
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Would you like some spies with that right to peacefully assemble?
Forty different federal agencies are keeping themselves busy spying on the American public, according to a New York Times study.
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Big Oil doesn’t even need Keystone — all the more reason to kill it
The Keystone XL battle is mostly symbolic at this point, which makes winning even more important.
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Rising seas are swallowing this Republican’s district. Will he do anything about it?
Much of Garret Graves' district may one day be underwater.
