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Kitimat, B.C., votes 'no' to Northern Gateway in non-binding plebiscite on $6.5B twin pipeline project.

When it comes to the environment, organized labor has two hearts beating within a single breast.

Rights for Mother Earth, not Corporations

Computer modelling showed intensification of US-bound Pacific storms, driven by fine aerosols from coal power plants and traffic.

Conn Hallinan remembers Carl Bloice— Foreign Policy In Focus columnist, longtime journalist and lifetime advocate for the dispossessed.

Even without tobacco, the poorly regulated devices may pose unique dangers

Wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white, famous ex-boxer became advocate for other prisoners.

Dorji Khatri, Sherpa union leader, among those killed in Everest Avalanche. Sherpa guide anger over working conditions continues to rise.

There’s a significant labor economics literature that argues that job-to-job transitions are a major driver of wage growth for workers. If the number of people moving directly from one job to another is in decline, that’s a bad sign for wage growth, as well as inflation and monetary policy. This appears to be undertheorized and not discussed enough in academic or policy discussions.

Some argue that the broadband market already has been carved up into a cartel, so blocking the acquisition would do little to bring down prices. Washington should examine a larger question beyond whether the deal is good or bad for consumers: Is it good for our democracy? We haven’t needed to ask this question for more than a century because America hasn’t experienced the present concentration of economic wealth and power in more than a century.