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  • After a powerful lobbyist intervenes, EPA reverses stance on polluting Texas county's water
    Photo of Heather Podesta by cliff1066 via Wikipedia.

    When Uranium Energy Corp. sought permission to launch a large-scale mining project in Goliad County, Texas, it seemed the EPA would stand in the way -- until a powerful Democratic lobbyist and fundraiser intervened.

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    By ProPublica on March 14, 2013 10:51 AM
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    Categories: Energy and Environment
  • Postal unions agitate to keep delivering the mail on time and on Saturday
    Photo of CPWU's December hunger strike on the National Mall by Joe Piette.

    A national day of action on March 24 will call on Congress to keep Saturday mail delivery, but postal worker unions have other demands to halt the push toward USPS privatization.

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    By Labor Notes on March 13, 2013 10:47 AM
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    Categories: Labor
  • Southeast leads in creating clean-energy manufacturing jobs, but will politicians kill the momentum?
    Map from E2 report showing clean energy job announcements by state.

    A new report finds that North Carolina is among the leaders in creating manufacturing-related clean energy jobs, but some of the state's politicians are targeting the law that jump-started the industry's growth.

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    By Sue Sturgis on March 12, 2013 11:43 AM
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    Categories: Energy and Environment, State Policy
  • Who are the 'undocuqueer'? New reports shed light
    (Graph from "LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States.")

    For the first time, reports estimate the number of LGBT immigrants in the U.S. -- a group that's been on the frontline of the immigrant rights movement.

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    By New America Media on March 11, 2013 10:46 AM
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    Categories: Immigration
  • FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: Women and lynching
    Texas suffragist Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass revolt against lynching.

    A story in a 1977 issue of Southern Exposure reported on how in the midst of the Great Depression Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass "revolt against chivalry" that linked the anti-lynching campaign with the struggle for sexual emancipation. We share it today in honor of International Women's Day.

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    By Southern Exposure on March 08, 2013 14:09 PM
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    Categories: Community Action, Race and Civil Rights, Southern History, Women's Rights
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Follow the drone money
    General Atomics' MQ-9 Reaper drone. (U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway)

    In the wake of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) filibuster this week raising concerns about the Obama administration's policy on the domestic use of drones against U.S. civilians, we take a by-the-numbers look at U.S. drone use and drone makers' political clout.

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    By Sue Sturgis on March 08, 2013 12:11 PM
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    Categories: Money In Politics, Peace and Security
  • VOICES: Scarlet Letter licenses? Give me one, too.
    An example of North Carolina's planned "Scarlet Letter" licenses.

    North Carolina will soon begin issuing driver's licenses to undocumented youth with a pink banner and bright red letters that say "NO LAWFUL STATUS" and "LIMITED TERM." Jeff Shaw with N.C. Policy Watch tells state transportation chief Tony Tata why he wants one, too.

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    By NC Policy Watch on March 07, 2013 12:52 PM
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    Categories: Immigration, State Policy
  • Lawsuit seeks withheld information about leaking Gulf oil wells
    Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper photo of Taylor Energy spill taken Sept. 10, 2012.

    Clean water advocates have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard over its refusal to release public records about a chronic leak from Taylor Energy oil wells off the Louisiana coast. Caused by an underwater mudslide during Hurricane Ivan, the spill has been fouling Gulf waters since 2004.

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    By Sue Sturgis on March 07, 2013 11:14 AM
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    Categories: Energy and Environment, Gulf Coast
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