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from Common Dreamsby Renee Schoof and Margaret TalevWASHINGTON - Government scientists wanted to tell Americans early on how bad the BP oil spill could get, but the White House denied their request to make the worst-case models public, a report by the staff of the national panel investigating the spill said Wednesday.White House officials denied that they tried to suppress the information.The...
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Our daily weather reports, cheerfully presented with flashy graphics and state-of-the-art animation, appear to relay more and more information. And yet, no matter how glitzy the presentation, a key fact is invariably omitted. Imagine if, after flashing the words "extreme weather" to grab our attention, the reports flashed "global warming." Then we would know not only to wear...
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Published on Friday, June 11, 2010 by The Huffington Post by Riki Ott Orange Beach, Alabama -- While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's spill in the Gulf, people in coastal communities where I visited last week in Louisiana and Alabama know an inconvenient truth: BP -- not our president -- controls the response. In fact, people...
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UNITED NATIONS - April 22 - Food & Water Watch Board Chair Maude Barlow addressed the United
Nations General Assembly today to support the Bolivian call for an
annual "International Mother Earth Day" celebration. Her speech was a
call to action to implement the human right to water and abandon the
"hard path" of large-scale technology - dams, diversion and
desalination - in favor of the...
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