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Disrupting Democracy: When Big Tech Takes Over a City
Google partner Sidewalk Labs wants to remake the Toronto waterfront as a privately run digital development. It may really be a digital dystopia.
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San Francisco Makes a Charge Toward Public Power
The city’s bid to take over PG&E could mark a turning point in restoring a more environmentally and economically just power grid.
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Climate Activists Win Partial Victory in Climate Debate Battle
At the resolutions committee meeting Thursday morning, two hours of debate only yielded a non-DNC sanctioned discussion—not a climate debate.
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Activists Fear Imminent Betrayal From DNC Quashing Climate Debate
Tomorrow the DNC votes on a resolution to hold a climate debate, but Chair Tom Perez’s competing resolution would undermine that effort.
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Progressive Group Says It’s Time for the FTC to Investigate the FTC
Is the Federal Trade Commission using the same deceptive advertising practices it’s supposed to police?
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Exxon Refinery Explosion Another By-Product of Trump Deregulation
The Trump administration is working to roll back a chemical safety disaster rule, putting communities like Baytown, Texas, at risk.
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Fifty Years After the Moon Landing, Recalling One Small Misstep
Why did the first humans to set foot off Planet Earth plant the flag of only part of Planet Earth?
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National Grid Asks Customers to Help it Lobby for a New Fracked Gas Pipeline
The utility company implemented a moratorium on new service in the NYC area after a billion-dollar fracked-gas pipeline project was rejected by New York and New Jersey governments, and is now pressing its customers in a last-ditch lobbying effort.
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