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Sacramento Delta Fish Under Threat From Billionaire Water Thieves

It’s that Top 1% again. A billionaire in South California is pushing a plan to take more water from the Sacramento Delta for water wasting farms, putting fish populations, particularly the Striped Bass, in danger. [...]

The Tea Party And Our National Parks

The Tea Party wants to turn Alaska into a strip-mining site and the Everglades into an oilfield. Who are these idiots? [...]

President Sells Out To Polluters

Who cares about the quality of the air that we breathe? This Administration doesn’t seem to. [...]

A Science Lesson For The Tea Party

Michele Bachmann says that Hurricane Irene and the 5.9 earthquake in Virginia were messages from God. She also denigrates man-made climate change theories. Why? [...]

I Ain’t Related To No Chimpanzee!

The Creationists are right! We didn’t evolve from chimpanzees/gorillas/monkeys! Maybe we should listen to them a bit more, or maybe not… [...]

Create Your Own Clean Energy The Easy Way

Google is backing a company that makes it cost effective for homeowners to start using solar power immediately with no upfront investment. [...]

New Tree Of Life Branch Found

Scientists in England believe that they have found a new branch on the complex tree of life. [...]

Is The End Of The World Nigh?

Will the World really end on May 21, 2012? [...]

Natural Gas Industry Releasing Over 650 Toxic Chemicals Into Our Environment

The latest report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee contains even more worrying evidence that the natural gas industry practice of hydraulic fracturing (“frac’ing”) is damaging our environment. [...]

Squeaker Boehner and the Government Shutdown

Poor House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)! He’s being squeezed dry by the Tea Party extremists who want to make a point by getting the government shut down. He’s found a way out though… [...]

Beyond Pointing – Part 7 – Transocean Rewards Its Executives

In a stunning abuse of statistics, Transocean, the company that was running the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and killed 11 workers, has awarded bonuses to its executives citing 2010 as “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history.” [...]

Could The Obama-Biden Energy Plan Work?

The President announced significant tax breaks for the middle classes yesterday. Was anyone listening and what are the chances that the GOP will allow them to happen? [...]

Beyond Pointing – Part 6 – Regulator Ignores Blowout Preventer Design Flaws

The investigation into the design and performance of the blowout preventer that failed and caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster should have lessons for the entire offshore drilling industry. Unfortunately, the regulators of that industry are ignoring the lessons. [...]

Radioactivity Revealed As The Latest Threat From Oil and Gas Frac’ing Sites

The oil and gas drilling industry’s use of hydraulic fracturing has been shown to be a threat to our drinking water supplies because of the chemicals involved. Now a new threat has emerged – radioactivity in our water and the food chain. [...]

President Obama signed the second part (reconciliation) of the health care reform bill on March 30, 2010. That's great, but the provisions that will cover the uninsured haven't clicked in yet.

Our elected officials started work on the proposed health insurance reform bill on July 30, 2009. Harvard researchers estimate that 122 Americans die every day as a result of not having health insurance.

So, the estimated number of uninsured Americans who have died while the politicians in the Senate and Congress played politics and delayed new benefits for the sake of the health care insurers is

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