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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...Tags: The New York Times, The Associated Press, Internal Revenue Service, Media Industry, Bethlehem Township (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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LETTER: Tempest In A Teapot
The wing-nuts are in their glory. Between the IRS focusing on tea party groups and the Justice Department collecting some AP reporters' phone number records, it's enough to make this classy anti-government bunch whoop with glee. Instead of fantasizing...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, NAACP
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Canada PM defends tar sands pipeline plan, saying oil will come into US anyway
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another. Stephen Harper addressed...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Global Warming, Weather, Environmental Issues, Global Change
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Liberals stage comeback to win in Canada's British Columbia -networks
ReutersBy Jennifer Kwan VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 14 (Reuters) - The incumbent Liberal Party won a handsome majority in the election in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia on Tuesday, news networks predicted, defying the pollsters who had...Tags: Enbridge Incorporated, National Government, Politics, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Energy Partners Limited
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COLUMN-WTO rules on one solar dispute, bigger lurk: Wynn
ReutersBy Gerard Wynn LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - Rejection by the world's trade body last week of preferential support for domestic solar panel makers in Canadian province Ontario brings helpful but limited guidance in a growing number of other disputes. The...Tags: Renewable Energy, Italy, Environmental Issues, Japan, European Union
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Left wing set to win in Canada's BC, may reshape energy policy
ReutersBy Jennifer Kwan VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 9 (Reuters) - The left-leaning New Democrats are set to reshape energy policy in Canada's Pacific province of British Columbia if, as expected, they seize power from the Liberals in Tuesday's elections...Tags: Personal Income, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Environmental Issues, Vancouver (Canada), Government
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Don't save the planet
To the age-old question of how many conservatives does it take to screw in a light bulb, we now have a definitive answer: Just one, but it will take him weeks to chase down a vintage incandescent bulb because he won't touch an energy-efficient one. At...
Tags: Radio, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Science and Technology, Rush Limbaugh
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Connecticut Beekeepers Worry About Pesticide Use
As part of the ongoing battle against Lyme and other tickborne diseases, public health organizations are asking residents in 11 Fairfield County towns to participate in a study to see if wiping out the ticks on rodents will help rein in the illnesses in...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Lyme Disease, Easton (Fairfield, Connecticut), European Union
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The Goldman Sachs banker turned Nature Conservancy chief
Mark Tercek had some horribly awkward moments after he left Goldman Sachs to run a U.S. environmental charity, the Nature Conservancy. At one of his first big staff meetings, he committed a total eco no-no by drinking from a plastic water bottle. When...
Tags: World Wildlife Fund, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Co., Environmental Issues, Nature Conservancy
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European Union to clamp down on pesticides thought to harm bees
The European Commission will tightly restrict for two years the use of pesticides suspected of harming bees, despite opposition from some of the 27 countries that make up the European Union. The European Commission, the EU's governing body, announced...Tags: Politics, International Organizations, Science and Technology, European Union, Barack Obama
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Greenpeace lanza página en internet para captar denuncias de trabajadores petroleros
ReutersOSLO, 24 abr (Reuters) - El grupo ambientalista Greenpeace estrenó el miércoles una página de internet que busca atraer denuncias de los propios trabajadores de las compañías petroleras sobre los riesgos que conlleva la perforación para encontrar...Tags: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, ConocoPhillips
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Greenpeace activists board Australian coal ship in reef protest
ReutersSYDNEY, April 24 (Reuters) - Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian coal industry and its impact on the World Heritage...Tags: UNESCO, Australia, Metal and Mineral, Coal, Mining
May 21, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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|Story| Hartford Courant
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