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How Democrats Mixed Oil and Water, Killing Environmental Bill

Gary Cohn Capital and Main
Hopes were high among environmentalists when a bill designed to protect California’s drinking water was introduced in the state Assembly earlier this year. After all, California has passed some of the most far-reaching environmental laws and regulations in the nation, and the state legislature is dominated by the Democratic Party, whose members are generally inclined to vote for tougher environmental standards. It never had a chance.

Canada’s Oil Country Promises to Become ‘World Leader’ on Climate Change

Emily Atkin Think Progress
Last month, the historically ultra-conservative and oil-rich province of Alberta, Canada, did the unthinkable: It elected a left-wing government. And that new government just made one of its first big moves: It announced a serious clamp-down on climate change, including doubling its carbon tax.

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Skin of Dust

James P. Lenfestey EARTH IN ANGER
Minnesota poet James P. Lenfestey's "Skin of Dust" offers an aerial view of our environmental holocaust, the Earth as a living body endangered.

Tidbits - June 11, 2015 - Kalief Browder, Criminality of Prisons; Fight for $15; Edward Snowden: Hero; Ronnie Gilbert; Walmart; Suicide in Young Women; Left Strategy Needed; and more...

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Ugly Food Gets Attractive

Dan Mitchell Time.com
Less than beautiful produce can be an attractive and economical supply source

More Bucks for the Bang

Robert Alvarez Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
What good is it to protect ourselves with nuclear weapons if we poison our people in the process? Unfortunately, this sentiment seems to be missing from the Obama administration and Congress, and one of professor Parkinson’s most important lessons—that “delay is the deadliest form of denial”—remains lost on US decision makers.

Syriza Can Show `Another Energy is Possible'

Sean Sweeney Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
Greece's new government is committed to `ecological transformation'. Syriza's existing programmatic commitments to work towards "the development of a new paradigm of social, environmental and economic development," and the need to build a public sector of a "new type" could transform energy and climate politics in the EU and beyond.

Great Gamble on the Mekong

Nathaniel Eisen Foreign Policy in Focus
A proposed dam on the Mekong River would provide energy for the region, but at a significant environmental cost.
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