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Activists in Portland, in solidarity with a week-long action in Helena, Montana, deliver a final warning to Portland PR firm Gard Communications, demanding that they drop client Ambre Energy over the controversial Morrow Pacific coal export proposal....

Coke and Pepsi have promised to remove carcinogenic caramel color after the state of California added it to a list of carcinogens, but so far many cans still contain it....

Ever heard of the Council on Environmental Quality? Chaired by former LA Deputy Mayor Nancy Sutley, it’s a White House office that according to its website ”coordinates Federal environmental efforts.” To judge by a recent update from the Bureau of Land Management, Sutley’s office may just hold the key for a compromise in a long-running battle over rural groundwater between Utah and Nevada. Using powers supposedly afforded by the Council, the Bureau is adding a new alternative to an environm...

Does this Harvard educated physician really care this much about people's homes being foreclosed? Apparently because according to her Facebook page, she's still sitting in the Philadelphia jail as this is being typed....

Elinor Ostrom was well-known in 2009 when she was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for economics. In her analysis of "governance of the commons," she put in question the past economic model that common goods can only be managed successfully by the market or the state. For Ostrom, research and knowledge were common property and thrive best when used and developed in common....

11 ways to reduce health care costs...

In the aftermath of Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to uphold the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, Democrats and Republicans have been waging a war of words on whether the provision involves a tax or a penalty....

Obama’s policy was based on the original sin of allowing the pharmaceutical companies off the hook. He then followed this up by pledging public funds to subsidize junk healthcare plans, coercing Americans into purchasing these plans and silencing the voices of single-payer healthcare advocates. Obamacare is not healthcare reform; it is just another corporate giveaway by the Obama administration....

Quote, Unquote - the venerable community media center in Albuquerque, New Mexico that has been fighting to keep it's municipal franchise against a commercial outfit and alleges the possible misappropriation of PEG funds by the City of Albuquerque, found itself forcibly evicted today by an armed security goon....

Any day the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most at risk is this act’s “individual mandate” which requires everyone to buy health insurance from a private insurer or face a steep fine. If the “individual mandate” is ruled unconstitutional, it is possible that the Supreme Court justices will throw out the ACA in its entirety. Even if they agree to keep the ACA intact while rejecting the individual mandate, this will put the entir...