Carlos Slim held the title of the world’s richest man for the past three years until a new president rolled into town with a vast economic reform agenda.
Carlos Slim held the title of the world’s richest man for the past three years until a new president rolled into town with a vast economic reform agenda.
A federal judge ruled Friday Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his department systematically racially profiled Latinos in the Phoenix area.
the UK’s and the G8’s own tax havens in a global merry-go-round that helps keep 1.3 billion people in poverty and hunger, while denying developing countries the ability to benefit from their own wealth, and raise the public funds needed to fight poverty.”
Top 6 list of need-to-know facts on social welfare nonprofits, also known as dark money groups because they don’t have to disclose their donors. The groups poured more than $256 million into the 2012 federal elections.
During a recent discussion with a group opposing the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal someone raised the topic of offshore wind. The matter came up within the context of a section in The Coos County Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance that defines non...
As important as it is to put comments into the public record FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), according to one source, has never denied a permit for oil and gas infrastructure unless the developer has first withdrawn the application. In recent weeks, FERC...
Companies that include Williams Partners backing the Constitution Pipeline connecting New York to New England used eminent domain to acquire access to properties against the owners' wishes. U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion ruled that the Constitution Pipeline has...
With more than 1,200 people missing and at least six dead, nature’s fury in Colorado is the story of a warming planet
A series of actions that took place this summer helped to shift the climate movement’s center of gravity.
HUD has accused Dallas, one of the nation’s largest cities, of violating civil rights law through housing practices that discriminated against black, Latino and disabled residents
Real story isn’t the tired antics of the “corporate centrists” but the “sustained feistiness among progressives” increasingly on display
A forensic study conducted by Det Norske Veritas, into the cause of the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has determined that a blowout preventer cannot work once the pressure event meant to trigger the valves to close goes off a well head, because the valves become misaligned by the event. Nevertheless, the US Department of the Interior continues to issue deep water drilling permits in the Gulf to known bad corporate actors like BP, Chevron, Shell and more.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is and can be if a full meltdown cannot be averted, it will not explode like an atomic bomb. Natural gas liquids, on the other hand, if a fire breaks out to heat the storage tanks, will unleash a Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion or BLEVE.
Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency. It means you are essentially powerless. - Derrick Jensen In the 56 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring one thing remains constant to this day. Our existing system of law...
Given a FERC Final Order regarding Jordan Cove is expected in November 2019 it is good that Wim DeVriend has reminded us that local citizens who don’t stand to lose their property to eminent domain enabled a foreign corporation to interfere in a local election that...