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President Said to Be Planning to Use Executive Authority on Carbon Rule
WASHINGTON — President Obama will use his executive authority to cut carbon emissions from the nation’s coal-fired power plants by up to 20 percent, according to people familiar … Read more »
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Reader Supported News
My uncle, President John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning best-seller Profiles in Courage recounted the stories of courageous U.S. Senators — Republicans and Democrats — who chose patriotism over partisanship and sacrificed … Read more »
By Jane Ayers, Reader Supported News
Last night’s election results rocked Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley in celebration, as local non-GMO farmers won Measure 15-119, banning all GMOs from the Southern Oregon region of Jackson County. In the adjoining Josephine County, … Read more »
By Dominic Rushe, Guardian UK
Campaigners say 139 people arrested in Chicago in what is thought to be the largest protest McDonald’s has ever faced
McDonald’s closed part of its corporate headquarters on Wednesday in response to a mass protest … Read more »
By Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress
A group of retired American generals and admirals said that climate change poses a growing security threat and could be a start of a conflict in the arctic. (photo: Getty Images)
Sea level rise impacting naval … Read more »
By Bill McKibbon, Rolling Stone
When world leaders gather in New York this fall to confront climate change, tens of thousands of people (and maybe you) will be there to demand they take action before it’s too late
This is … Read more »
By Justin McCurry, Guardian UK
Tepco hails ‘major milestone’ in cleanup operation three years after earthquake and tsunami damaged reactors at nuclear plant.
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has started pumping groundwater into the Pacific … Read more »
By Jane Ayers, Reader Supported News
Will there peace in the Valley? According to local Rogue Valley farmers in Southern Oregon: only if Monsanto and Syngenta farmers stop planting GMO crops that threaten their livelihoods. A county ballot Measure 15-119 … Read more »
By Zack Ford, ThinkProgress
A federal judge ruled Monday that Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and unlike in many other states, this may mean that marriage equality has permanently arrived in Oregon. Due to the precedent set in … Read more »
