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Rank of 2012 among the warmest years on record for the contiguous United States: 1 Degrees by which the average 2012 temperature…
Sue Sturgis
Editorial director of the NC-based Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South and Southern Exposure, where she focuses on energy & the environment.
Amount by which the annual tax bill of the richest 1 percent of Americans would have increased under President Obama's original proposal…
Friday's massacre of 20 first-grade students and six adults at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. by a disturbed young…
Before the current recession, Southern states accounted for two-thirds of those with child poverty rates over 20 percent. But today, states in…
Nearly six million U.S. residents live within three miles of a coal-burning power plant — but those heavily polluting facilities are not…
Date on which plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging legislative and congressional redistricting in North Carolina filed a motion asking the court to…
Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia has ignited controversy with his recent remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies…
A nonviolent direct action is underway in Texas seeking to block construction of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline planned to carry tar sands…
The U.S. Geological Survey released two reports this week confirming that fracking for natural gas has led to groundwater contamination — a fact…
Number of states that have enacted voting restrictions, which a new report from the Advancement Project finds will have a disproportionate effect on Latino…