In Brady, Texas, a vote to approve the purchase of smart meters played a large role in the recall of the city’s mayor and the electoral defeat of two council members.
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Petroleum Coke really is the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth, and now it is stockpiling in Detroit, thanks to Koch Carbon.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Saturday to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension over pollution.
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I just love the stories that combine climate change with interesting animals. what these people seems to miss is that even if the sea levels go up, there is still going to be shoreline…
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The UK government’s controversial change in housing benefits – known as “the bedroom tax” – is generating controversy and protests. In effect since April, it often causes trouble that goes beyond the financial burden.
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International Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri recently said the hiatus would have to last 30 to 40 years “at least” to break the long-term warming trend. (So I guess global warming is still real)
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In 1989, when the internet was predominantly ASCII-based and HyperCard had yet to give birth (or at least act as a midwife) to the world wide web, R.U. Sirius launched Mondo 2000. “I’d say it was arguably the representative underground magazine of its pre-web day,” William Gibson said in a recent interview. “Posterity, looking at this, should also consider Mondo 2000 as a focus of something that was happening.”
Twenty years ago, it was cypherpunk that was happening.
And it’s happening again today.
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About 4 percent of U.S. hospitals and 18 percent of long- term acute care hospitals, such as those that provide ventilation and wound care, had an infection from carbapenem- resistant Enterobacteriaceae, in the first half of 2012, according to a report released today by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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As the two-year anniversary of the world’s second-worst nuclear accident nears, citizen groups are questioning the accuracy of the government’s contamination data for the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
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There is something very strange and artificial about the latest feminist wave that seemed to come out of nowhere around 2010. Since the suspiciously hyped up India rape story it has gone global. This is not a spontaneous outburst of freedom loving women.
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