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NAFTA Talks Should Continue Until a Good Deal Is Achieved 5 days ago
Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, released the following statement...
New Data Show Trump’s First Quarter 2018 China and Mexico Trade Deficits Largest on Record as All Eyes Focus on This Week’s Trade Discussions in China, Looming NAFTA Deadline 13 days ago
U.S. Trade Deficit With World Largest Since 2008 Financial Crisis, Contrary to Trump’s Campaign Pledge to Quickly Reduce Deficit to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs WASHINGTON...
New Trump Administration Trade Report Sticks to the Status Quo a month ago
The Trump administration’s recently released 2018 National Trade Estimate Report could become classic reading for political science students studying the “deep state”...
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Recycling, once embraced by businesses and environmentalists, now under siege – “Recycling as we know it isn’t working” 2 days ago
By Bob Tita 13 May 2018(The Wall Street Journal) – The U.S. recycling industry is breaking down.Prices for scrap paper and plastic have collapsed, leading local officials across...
Actors were paid to support Entergy’s power plant at New Orleans City Council meetings – “They paid us to sit through the meeting and clap every time someone said something against wind and solar power” 3 days ago
By Michael Isaac Stein4 May 2018 (The Lens) – Last October, about 50 people in bright orange shirts filed into City Hall for a public hearing on Entergy’s request to build a $210...
Origin of amphibian “apocalypse” finally found – “This is the worst pathogen in the history of the world, in terms of its impacts on biodiversity” 4 days ago
By Michael Greshko10 May 2018(National Geographic) – Many of the world's amphibians are staring down an existential threat: an ancient skin-eating fungus that can wipe out entire...
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New Utah State University Study helps cities budget for Water Main Breaks 12 days ago
New data from Utah State University Buried Structures Laboratory quantifies water main breaks by pipe material type, helping towns and cities across Canada and the U.S. predict...
Trump to send $15 billion in spending rescissions later today 8 days ago
You can argue it would have been better not to sign the Omnibus in the first place, but this will be a very positive end result if he can get it through Congress...
Former Dem Sen. Robert Torricelli: Dems don't deserve to govern, because their message isn't good enough 8 days ago
There are a lot of reasons Democrats don’t deserve to govern. Their ideas are horrible, they trend toward the destruction of the constitution at every opportunity, your rights...
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Sorry Mr Trudeau, Kinder Morgan Is Just An Economic Pipe Dream 11 days ago
While Trudeau and the Liberal government offer up slogans to justify why the Kinder Morgan pipeline “must be built”, a chorus of thoughtful commentators have recently provided...
From Trudeau to Crudeau – How It Happened 18 days ago
It started so well. In December of 2015, newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada emerged from the Paris Agreement talks as a rising climate star and a beacon of hope for...
Canada on Earth Day – Climate Crisis, Carbon Pricing, Clean Energy 25 days ago
Perhaps every day needs to be Earth Day as we begin to adapt to the era of climate crisis. The earth is heating up. “We must make up our minds about it, before it makes up our minds for us,”...
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Crimes against future generations 2 days ago
Our continued possession of nuclear weapons; production of radioactive waste due to our use of nuclear power; and our inadequate action on climate change are crimes against future...
CND campaigner marks 40 years as organization turns 60 2 days ago
British CND campaigner, Rae Street, vows she will never "shut up" as long as nuclear weapons exist in the world. She has campaigned resolutely to get rid of them for 40 years. Now 80...
Fukushima teen feels despair, then fights back for justice 2 days ago
A 15-year old boy lost everything he loved when he was forced to evacuate from his Fukushima home. Bullied at his new school and, because he came from a radioactive area, called a "germ,"...
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Dolat Abad Windcatcher in Yazd, Iran an hour ago
Iran has an extreme and arid climate. It can get very hot in the daytime and cool down considerably at night. Long before electricity and air conditioning were invented, back when Iran...
The ‘Ninja Diet’ Prioritized Fortitude, Stealth, and Eliminating Body Odor 2 hours ago
The truth about ninjas is as slippery as its subject. These mysterious assassins, sometimes referred to as shinobi, lived lives so inscrutable that the line between history and the...
New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, Connecticut 2 hours ago
A visit to this museum is basically a crash course in the history of a carnival staple: the carousel. You’ll find much more than the classic carousel horse here—don’t be surprised...
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Wednesday Morning Links 5 hours ago
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The CCPA offers some questions and answers on the problems with "social impact bonds" designed to turn the delivery of needed...
Tuesday Morning Links a day ago
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joel French discusses the need for Alberta to implement a more thorough and progressive tax system in order to ensure it has the revenue to support...
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