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INSTITUTE INDEX: Time of trials for BP?

The civil trial for the 2010 Gulf oil disaster is scheduled to get underway this month in New Orleans -- unless BP reaches a settlement with the federal government, which some think is likely.

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Energy and Environment
By Sue Sturgis on February 08, 2012 10:29 AM
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Gas industry promotes own fracking standards despite history of problems

The American Petroleum Institute held a workshop in North Carolina last week touting its own safety standards for fracking. But the speakers didn't mention that the BP oil spill commission found API's ability to set standards is compromised by its role as the oil and gas industry's chief lobbyist.

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Energy and Environment
By Sue Sturgis on February 07, 2012 10:22 AM
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Komen VP who opposed Planned Parenthood a longtime foe of voting rights advocates

Karen Handel, the Komen Foundation VP now alleged to have spearheaded the decision to sever funding for Planned Parenthood, was earlier known for her controversial and litigation-prone reign as Georgia's elections chief.

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Elections and Voting, Southern Politics
By Chris Kromm on February 06, 2012 10:45 AM
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Facebook's dubious social mission

Why is a corporation that may soon have a market value of $100 billion persuading struggling communities like Rutherford County, N.C. to fork over taxpayer-financed subsidies?

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Work and Economy
By Phil Mattera on February 06, 2012 10:24 AM
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Martyred labor minstrel Ella May Wiggins celebrated in North Carolina

A group in Gaston County, N.C. is determined to keep alive the memory of the labor leader, who was murdered in 1929 after crossing racial lines in her effort to unionize a local textile mill.

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Labor, Southern History
By Joe Atkins on February 03, 2012 08:31 AM
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FLASHBACK: How the Komen Foundation fights health reform and fails cancer patients

The Dallas-based Susan B. Komen Foundation is in the spotlight for its decision to sever funding to Planned Parenthood. But a Southern Exposure investigation a decade ago exposed other controversies, including the money it takes from polluters and pharmaceutical companies and its fierce opposition to health care reform.

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Health and Public Safety
By Mary Ann Swissler on February 02, 2012 19:32 PM
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Voting rights battles revived in states

After a brief hiatus, the battle over voting rights is heating up in states across the South and country as November approaches.

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Elections and Voting
By Chris Kromm on February 02, 2012 12:54 PM
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Nuclear rebirth dead in Florida?

New developments raise serious questions about whether Progress Energy will ever build two reactors planned for Levy County, Fla. -- but its customers are still on the hook for the billion-dollar planning bill.

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Energy and Environment
By Sue Sturgis on February 02, 2012 08:01 AM
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