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According to a civil lawsuit filed last week, coal ash from a power plant owned by Arlington, Va.-based AES Corp. was dumped illegally on beaches in the Dominican Republic -- making nearby residents sick and causing serious birth defects. More...
One fact stands above all others in explaining Republican Bob McDonnell's resounding victory for Virginia governor: Turnout was the lowest it's been in 40 years. More...
Yesterday Virginia went red, Charlotte went blue, and gay candidates across the South won a series of local victories. Can we draw any clear message from Election 2009? More...
Mayoral elections in some of the South's biggest cities will be closely watched for signs of the shifting political mood; a likely Republican win for Virginia governor will come down to a battle of spin. More...
What's the South thinking about global warming, President Obama and the public option? Read our latest poll roundup and find out. Plus: Deeds done in Virginia? More...
The Mine Safety and Health Administration recently sent warning letters to 10 mine operators with serious recurrent safety and health violations. Most of the operations are coal mines in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky. More...
New Jersey and Virginia have critical and likely close elections for governor coming up in November and voter registration deadlines are quickly approaching. Yet both states, according to the most recent census, have huge numbers of unregistered Hispanic and Asian citizens. More...
In the latest from our Town Hall Tracker project, a fan of Americans for Prosperity challenges Rep. Tom Perriello -- not over health care, but Obama's citizenship. More...
New polls out from a North Carolina polling firm find that large percentages of voters in that state and Virginia don't believe President Obama was actually born in the United States -- while a surprising number also question whether Hawaii is really part of the country. More...
Sarah Palin appears to have picked up the misinformation that led to her "death panel" charges from the Liberty Counsel -- a far-right religious group affiliated with Jerry Falwell's Liberty University empire in Lynchburg, Va. More...
It turns out that a P.R. firm working on behalf of the coal lobby forged letters from groups representing women and senior citizens as well as blacks and Hispanics. A lawmaker is demanding answers. More...
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity says it's "outraged" that a firm working on its behalf forged anti-climate bill letters that appeared to come from minority advocacy groups. But it's not the first time ACCCE has been linked to deceptive practices -- we busted them last year for a misleading phone call on other climate legislation. More...
Bonner & Associates, a Washington firm that specializes in creating what look like grassroots movements which are in fact funded by corporate interests, is busted forging anti-climate bill letters to a Virginia congressman that appear to come from the NAACP and a Hispanic nonprofit. More...
Thousands of low-income workers earning a minimum wage got a boost in their wages as the national minimum wage rose to $7.25. Yet, one group remains excluded -- tipped workers have a national minimum wage that has been frozen at $2.13 for 18 years. More...
It can take years for ailing coal miners to qualify for black lung benefits -- but then the mining companies and their slick attorneys can force them to do it all over again, Betty Dotson-Lewis reports. More...
Why is one of the most influential consulting firms on health care policy the Virginia-based Lewin Group, a firm owned by a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, questions Phil Mattera. More...
As the recession deepened across the country in 2008, the nation saw a shift in its homeless populations to include more families and more rural and suburban areas. More...
An appeals court rules that Massey Energy -- the nation's fourth-largest mining company and a major mountaintop removal operator -- must give jobs back to 85 mine workers it fired because of their union membership and pro-union sentiments. More...
Opponents of the "public option" for health care say that it would hurt competition. But in fact, most health insurance markets fall under what the Department of Justice considers a "highly-concentrated market," or near-monopoly. More...
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