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Acid-Mining Michigan

Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott plans to develop a nickel sulfide mine beneath the fragile Salmon Trout River in the state's Upper Peninsula

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U.S. Lobbyists Assault E.U. Regs

Why is the United States, which practically invented consumer protection, now lagging behind the E.U., and in some cases, trailing Japan, China and Mexico?

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Air Polluters Sail the High Seas

The environmental law firm EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth and other advocacy groups are taking action to compel the EPA to set comprehensive restrictions on the air pollution that clouds U.S. harbors

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Lobbying for Cancer

Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research

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Recipe For Disaster

What's (not) in a food label?

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Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands

To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet

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Burned by Flame Retardants

The EPA does almost nothing to regulate the PBDEs we Americans eat, absorb and breath every day

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Tranche Warfare

Who will be left holding the bag as subprime mortgages go bad?

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Food Poisoning for Thought

Food regulators in both China and the United States have a financial or career stake in the profitability of the industries they are supposed to oversee

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Rolling Back the Regs

Emissions limits on coal-fired power plants, endangered species protections that inhibit logging, and restrictions on chemicals in drinking… more

vol. 31, iss. 03    ,

Outlawing Legal Bribery

According to a national exit poll, 42 percent of voters in November's election said that corruption was the… more

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Filling the Void

With the federal government failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, many mayors are beginning to think globally and act locally.

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Economic Populism Proves Popular

To thwart legislation that put caps on payday lending rates, Republican lawmakers in Oregon had to pass it

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Bankruptcy Law in Shambles

What happens when the credit card industry writes congressional legislation? According to the judges who have to enforce it, anarchy

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Environmental Hogwash

The EPA works with factory farms to delay regulation of ‘Extremely Hazardous Substances.’

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Meltdown Madness

Easing regulations on an apocalyptic industry

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Bought and Paid For

Who’s behind the president’s fundraising machine—and what they expect in return

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What the FCC?!?

I am sure that if you, like me, see the footage of the “wardrobe malfunction” one more time… more

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Power to the People

With an estimated 50 million Americans and Canadians having been left without power (and in some cases water)… more

vol. 27, iss. 22   

Sells Like Teen Spirit

The nice thing about living in Washington is that on your way to the mall you can see… more

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Under the Gun

Here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, amid the fear and anger over the sniper rampage, one topic has been largely… more

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