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Coal Mining Deja Vu: Massey Energy’s Latest Safety Violations
One would think that after a devastating explosion that cost the lives of 29 miners, coal giant Massey Energy would try and tighten up its safety profile. One would be wrong.
Bin Laden the Humanitarian? Global Terrorist Turns to Global Warming in New Tape
In a new tape posted to an Islamic forum on Friday, Al Qaeda leader and world public enemy #1 Osama bin Laden departs from his usual calls for death and destruction in order to lament the vast and damaging effects of climate change.
Could Saudi-UAE Naval Battle Put a Crimp on Persian Gulf Oil?
Last week a brief naval encounter between vessels from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have raised concerns over security and calm in the shipping lane through which 40 percent of all the world’s sea-traded oil moves. That is, if the incident happened in the first place.
Can the Ethics of Islam Stop Environmental Terrorism?
In war zones around the world, the United Nations and dozens of countries throw money and people at maintaining order, preventing terrorism and diminishing the effects of war and violence. As a result, we might be dangerously ignoring the potential for an environmental terrorist attack with catastrophic consequences.
Cleaning Up My View in New York: Gowanus Canal Gets Superfund Status
The EPA has decided to designate the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn a Superfund clean-up site, a move which will hold the polluters financially responsible and theoretically result in its cleanup within a decade or so.
