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Several hundred people filled the floor of Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University on Friday for a public hearing on proposed rules governing fracking in North Carolina. All who spoke during the public hearing opposed the rules

Analysis of proposed 6th grade texts show they falsely claim scientific disagreement about global warming

The implication of no immediate action is worryingly clear – either we take a collective responsibility to make a difference, and soon, or it will be too late.

On the eve of the UN Climate Summit, Desmond Tutu argues that tactics used against firms who did business with South Africa must now be applied to fossil fuels to prevent human suffering

A Demonstration for the Planet in Manhattan With drums and tubas, banners and floats, the People’s Climate March represented a broad coalition of ages, races, geographic locales and interests, with union members, religious leaders, scientists, politicians and students joining the procession.

United Teachers Los Angeles opens its annual Leadership Conference today, and strike talk will be a prominent theme.

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Two reports on a recent Oxford University study that predicts that nearly one-half of existing jobs in the United States will be replaced by robotic machines in the next generation. Plus, a video of a related lecture by an MIT economist who specializes in the impact of technology on employment.

The chained CPI has risen to walk among us again in the muttering and jawboning around the government shutdown/debt limit standoff and the search for an exit. We're hearing again about a "grand bargain" on the government deficit -- never mind that the deficit is falling, not rising.

"It's really hard for me to feed my two kids and struggle day to day,Do you think this is fair, that I have to be making $8.25 when I've worked for McDonald's for ten years?" (Nancy Salgado addressing McDonald's USA President Jeff Stratton's speech at the Union League Club of Chicago.)