by MGx Staff | Feb 26, 2015 | Nation
Published on Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Common Dreams by Jon Queally, staff writer Updated (11:55 AM EST): The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, in a 3-2 vote, approved the reclassification of the Internet under Title II of the Communications Act....
by MGx Staff | Feb 25, 2015 | National Security
Published on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 by Common Dreams by Lauren McCauley, staff writer Canada’s electronic spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), collects millions of emails and other information from its citizens and stores them for...
by MGx Staff | Feb 23, 2015 | Energy
Published on Monday, February 23, 2015 by Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare, staff writer According to federal authorities’ own predictions, potentially deadly oil train accidents are likely to be commonplace in the United States over the next two decades, with...
by MGx Staff | Feb 18, 2015 | Environment
Published on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 by Common Dreams by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer In a blow to anti-fracking campaigners across the state, the Ohio Supreme Court said this week that the authority to regulate oil and gas drilling activities—and therefore, to...
by MGx Staff | Feb 8, 2015 | Nation
Published on Sunday, February 08, 2015 by Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare, staff writer The biggest U.S. oil workers’ strike in more than three decades just grew even larger, with two mid-western BP plants joining in the work stoppage to demand basic health and...