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True to form, frequent commenter MarcoPolo stands up for the coal industry in response to my recent post “What’s Happening in the U.S. Coal Industry Is Most Certainly Not Helping the Miners”, in which he begins: I’m astounded by your ill-informed and deliberately …

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Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: How much difference a mere nine months can make! One of President Obama’s few real accomplishments was his irrational hatred of the US coal industry. In a mere eight years, President Obama contributed to massive job …

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Environmentalists everywhere were saddened that the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency with its recent ruling invalidating the EPA’s regulation of mercury and other toxic chemicals that are emitted from power plants.  But at the …

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Every few months, I try to remind myself to write something on Chevron and its overtly criminal behavior in Ecuador.  Those who are keeping track here will recall that, for a period of 26 years, Chevron (then Texaco) deliberately dumped …

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Frequent blogger Cameron Atwood writes about the skyrocketing rates of cancer in our world, writing: I want to call readers’ attention to: http://www.gotapex.com/cooking-and-food-subforum/167290-100-years-of-cancer-history.html …where there is an attached attempt to minimize but not dispute the data… …and here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_there_more_cancer_today_than_hundred_years_ago …where …

Do Our Unsustainable Practices in the Food Industry Cause Cancer? Read More »

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