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White House Crackdown on Leaks Targets the Media

The Trump administration's new crackdown on government leaks could be used to go after journalists, says Marcy Wheeler of EmptyWheel.net.

August 5, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Coal Power Plants are the Largest Source of Toxic Water Contamination

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Director of Beyond Coal Campaign at Sierra Club, Mary Anne Hitt, discusses Trump administration's assault on environmental regulations that protect drinking water and health from coal plant wastewater dumping and how activists organize

August 5, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Marine Ecology

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How Much Will Methane From Melting Permafrost Speed Up Global Warming?

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Methane "seeps" on the tundra may be more problematic than previously thought, according to a new report co-authored by Torsten Sachs, a researcher at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany.

August 6, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Global Warming

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"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor": Trump Admin Attacks Emma Lazarus's Iconic Poem on Statue of Liberty

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Opposition is growing to the Trump administration’s new proposal to implement radical changes to U.S. immigration law and slash the number of immigrants allowed into the United States by half.

August 4, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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U.S. Ramps Up Border Militarism as Trump Appoints DHS Head General John Kelly to Chief of Staff

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday embraced a proposal to slash the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S. by half, in what would be the biggest overhaul of immigration law in over half a century.

August 4, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Portland Pledges To Defend Ban on Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Projects

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City Council votes to appeal overturn of their historic ban of all new fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Nick Caleb, Staff Attorney at the Center for Sustainable Economy

August 4, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Big Public Health and Environmental Victory Over Trump's EPA

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Leading Environmental Attorney, Seth Johnston of Earthjustice says this week's announcement that EPA not delaying ozone rules is huge win for American public health and the environment.

August 4, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

Type: Video

To Protect Our Planet and Revitalize Our Economy, We Need a Climate Conservation Corps

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Bob Dylan famously sang that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” We could update Dylan’s adage to say that in 2017, you

August 3, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

Wolf-PAC: Getting the Corrupting Influence of Money out of Politics

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Twenty-seven times in our country’s history amendments have been made to the U.S. Constitution. They’re often made to address issues that weren’t foreseen by the Founding Fathers as they were writing the original document.

August 3, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Electoral Reform

Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ's Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended

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The New York Times is reporting the Justice Department is preparing to investigate universities’ affirmative action policies for anti-white bias, in what critics say is the latest assault against civil rights by

August 3, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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