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• Fight Over Fracking

  28 juillet 2010, par Anne Landman
  The state of New York has some of the cleanest drinking water in the country, but natural gas drilling is threatening water resources there. At issue is whether drilling companies know enough about how to protect groundwater sources from contamination by a drilling procedure called "fracking," (...)

• Here's Your Change, Have a Nice BPA Day

  28 juillet 2010, par Anne Landman — health, U.S. government
  The Environmental Working Group (EWG) performed laboratory tests on cash register receipts from major U.S. businesses and found bisphenol A (BPA) present on 40% of them, some at levels higher than those found in canned foods, baby bottles and infant formula. BPA is an estrogen-like, (...)

• Tell the President to Put Warren to Work!

  28 juillet 2010, par Mary Bottari — BanksterUSA, economy, Real Economy Project
  Elizabeth Warren One of the strongest parts of the Wall Street reform bill that just passed Congress is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). But whether the new bureau delivers on its promise to protect consumers depends in large part on who runs it. The agency was the brain-child (...)

• Health Insurers Leaning on State Insurance Commissioners to “Reform” Reform

  27 juillet 2010, par Wendell Potter — corporations, health, lobbying
  The nation’s biggest insurers -- not happy with provisions of the four-month-old health care reform law that would force many of them to spend more of the money they collect in premiums for their policyholders’ medical care -- are pressuring regulators to disregard what members of Congress (...)

• Time for Journalists to Differentiate Propaganda from News

  27 juillet 2010, par Anne Landman — internet, journalism, media
  The recent attempt by the right-wing propaganda machine to stir up interracial hatred by smearing Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod should be a call to action for traditional journalists. It is now clear that a component of the right's campaign against President Obama is (...)

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