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What Makes the College-Educated More Likely to Vote?

Union of Concerned Scientists

For a healthy democracy made up of educated and active voters, it would help to better understand the connection between educational attainment and political engagement, and ways to overcome this contradiction.

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. billion in profits for 2023.

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The Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle

Union of Concerned Scientists

Mitt Romney issued a press release crowing about all the money he secured for his state in the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that lays out what the government will spend on the US military in the following fiscal year. Last December, Utah Sen. He specifically cited the $4.3 The evidence, however, suggests otherwise.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. How has Paxton responded? The main beneficiary of Paxton’s efforts?

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 5.16.22

PA Environment Daily

energy industry and the government.” -- Financial Times: U.S. To Boost Green Jobs, Curb Emissions By Spending Taxpayer Money To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells [PA Included] PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: Democratic U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- Erie Times/Reuters: U.S.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. 2021 – present LNG Canada Development Inc. (a a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: Shell Canada Products Ltd.:

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021.

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