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Corporate-media bedfellows

2015-06-17 10:32:56| Chemicals - Topix.net

One reason corporations get away with running roughshod over us is that America's mass-market media have been thoroughly corporatized - both in structure and mindset. This corporate-media symbiosis can be seen in an upcoming food conference for journalists put on by the National Press Foundation.

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Waste Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

2015-04-14 08:31:00| Waste Age

Earlier this year, nearly 100 union representatives, solid waste company leaders, business groups, and others rallied on the steps of City Hall in New York City in opposition to proposed legislation attacking transfer stations. read more

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Politics & the pipeline: Plains bedfellows

2014-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Pipelines break. They dont break often, but when they do, the result can be catastrophic. Thats what worries John Harter, a rancher who grew up in this rural, poor and conservative area of southern South Dakota. Harter, 51, still lives here, and owns land that the Keystone XL pipeline would cross if its ever approved. Harter points to the 2010 spill of 860,000 gallons of tar sand oil from a pipeline crossing the Kalamazoo River in Michigan when people ask what hes fighting against. Enbridge,...

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Big Oil and Renewables: Not So Strange Bedfellows

2014-10-24 07:45:33| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

In most conversations about energy, the topic of Big Oil versus renewables usually becomes a zero-sum game. Renewable advocates accuse Big Oil of conspiring to shut out wind, solar, and other alternate energy sources in the pursuit of greater profits driven by fossil fuels.

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