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McCarthy Of The Great Woods: Unhinged Maine Governor Targets Donors Of Local Green Group

‘This seems like something Sen. Joseph McCarthy would have done in the 1950s, not a governor of Maine in 2016.’

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By Nadia Prupis
Paul LePage

Maine's Gov. Paul LePage directly targeted donors to the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) with harassing letters (pdf) that accused the conservation group of advancing "job-crushing, anti-business policies," the organization announced at a press conference on Thursday. It is unclear how LePage acquired the organization's list of donors

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Pentagon Claim That War Crimes Must Be ‘Intentional’ Called ‘Flatly Wrong’

‘There are laws—even in the heat of warfare—which must be followed. And no one is above them,’ says Physicians for Human Rights.

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By Nadia Prupis

The U.S. Department of Defense on Friday released its redacted report on the military's deadly October 2015 airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which found that the bombing was a mistake—and thus, not a war crime—a conclusion which human rights groups called "an affront" to justice

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Supreme Court Quietly Approves Rule to Give FBI ‘Sprawling’ Hacking Powers

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday quietly approved a rule change that would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for any target using anonymity software like Tor to browse the internet.

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By Nadia Prupis
A man holds up his phone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in San Francisco. Protesters assembled in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass murders in California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday quietly approved a rule change that would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for any target using anonymity software like Tor to browse the internet. Absent action by U.S. Congress, the rule change (pdf) will go into effect in December. The FBI would then be able to search

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‘Only the Beginning’: Three Face Criminal Charges In Flint Water Crisis

Two employees of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and one city employee charged in lead poisoning disaster

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By Nadia Prupis
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette addresses the media, Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in Flint, Mich. Months after officials conceded that a series of bad decisions had caused a disaster, charges were filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality employees and a local water treatment supervisor and stem from an investigation by the office of the attorney general. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Update: According to MLive, the individuals charged are Flint employee Michael Glasgow and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality employees Steven Busch and Michael Prysby. MLive reports: Glasgow is accused of tampering with evidence when he allegedly changed testing results to show there was less lead in city water than there actually

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Ahead Of UN Summit, Global Leaders Call For End To ‘Disastrous’ Drug War

Over 1,000 signatories, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, say it’s time for drug reform based in “science, compassion, health, and human rights”

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By Nadia Prupis
Colombia Drugs

More than 1,000 world leaders, celebrities, and other societal figures have signed a lettercalling for an end to the "disastrous" drug war ahead of an upcoming United Nations summit to discuss the organization's nearly two-decade-long campaign against narcotics. "Humankind cannot afford a 21st century drug policy as ineffective and

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Oil Industry’s Suppression Of Climate Science Began In 1940s, Documents Reveal

“What we found is they knew a great deal, and they knew it much earlier and with greater certainty than anyone has recognized or that the industry has admitted.”

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By Nadia Prupis
An oil field near Alabama and Clay streets in Huntington Beach, circa early 1920s. We have since cleaned up well(s). (Photo, City of Huntington Beach archives)

A trove of newly uncovered documents shows that fossil fuel companies were explicitly warned of the risks of climate change decades earlier than previously suspected. And while it's no secret—anymore—that the companies knew about those dangers long ago, the documents, published Wednesday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL),

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Media Silent As Keystone Pipeline Leak 100 Times Larger Than Initially Reported

TransCanada initially claimed Keystone pipeline spill only amounted to 4.5 barrels, but now puts estimate at 400 barrels.

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By Nadia Prupis
President Barack Obama arriving at the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla.

The oil spill that shut down a portion of the Keystone 1 pipeline in South Dakota last weekend is much bigger than initially estimated, TransCanada admitted on Thursday—almost 100 times bigger, in fact. The fossil fuel company said the “potential volume” of the spill in Freeman, discovered by a passerby on Saturday, was about 18,600 gallons, or

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