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Nuclear plant in Rocky Flats, Colorado

The Dirty Secrets of Rocky Flats

The legacy of Colorado’s notorious nuclear plant is radioactive waste in a residential community—and public distrust of government.

Kristen Iversen

How Rural America Got Fracked
The environmental nightmare you know nothing about.
Ellen Cantarow
Posted May 21 2012 - 10:52am
Investigation: Two Years After the BP Spill, A Hidden Health Crisis Festers
Gulf residents and cleanup workers continue to suffer serious health problems from the 2010 disaster, but the oil giant is not being held to account.
Antonia Juhasz
Posted Apr 18 2012 - 3:47pm
Unions and Environmentalists: Get It Together!
As the Keystone XL battle has shown, the blue-green alliance is in trouble—and only a deeper kind of solidarity can rescue it.
Jane McAlevey
Posted Apr 18 2012 - 3:45pm

Articles

News and Features

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Too Hot Not to Notice? (Global Warming and Climate Change, US Politics, Media)

A planet connected by wild weather.

Bill McKibben
Highway traffic
A New Green Agenda for Commuters (Global Warming and Climate Change, Environmental Activism)

How progressives can make energy a pocketbook issue, with greener rides—and greener wallets—for the middle class.

Lisa Margonelli
A New Energy Third World in North America? (US Politics, Corporations, Environment)

How the big energy companies plan to turn the United States into a third world petro-state.

Michael T. Klare
Occupy Climate Change (Global Warming and Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street, Environmental Activism)

The same corporations that destroyed the economy are wrecking the planet. Occupy should do something about that.

Jeremy Brecher
An Apology to the Next Generation for the Turmoil to Come (Economy, Environment)

What kind of damaged world is being left to our descendents?

Chip Ward

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