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The New York Times:
Medicare: Not Such a Budget-Buster Anymore
Estimates of future medical spending keep falling. The changes are projected to save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
By JUSTIN GILLISAUG.
Runaway growth in the emission of greenhouse gases is swamping all political efforts to deal with the problem, raising the risk of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts” over the coming decades, according to a draft of a … Read more »
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/ubs-time-to-join-the-solar-ev-storage-revolution-27742… Read more »
AMERICANS appear to be undergoing a significant psychological shift in our relation to global warming. I call this shift a climate “swerve,” borrowing the term used recently by the Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt to describe a major historical change … Read more »
By Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times
Energy companies are fracking for oil and gas at far shallower depths than widely believed, sometimes through underground sources of drinking water, according to research released Tuesday by Stanford University scientists.
Though researchers cautioned … Read more »
By Tiffany Kary
The chemical triclosan has been linked to cancer-cell growth and disrupted development in animals. Regulators are reviewing whether it’s safe to put in soap, cutting boards and toys. Consumer companies are phasing it out. Minnesota voted in … Read more »
By Thom Hartmann, EcoWatch
Let’s talk about America’s farmgrown terrorism epidemic. Back on Sept. 11, nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Since 9/11, our government has spent … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
For more than three decades, almost everyone who matters in American politics has agreed that higher taxes on the rich and increased aid to the poor have hurt economic growth.
Liberals have generally viewed this as a … Read more »
