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#NoDAPL water protector sentenced to 57 months

#NoDAPL water protector Red Fawn Fallis was sentenced July 11 to 57 months in prison by a federal judge in…

July 27, 2018

Stop crude oil ‘bomb trains’

March 7 — In the past three days, two trains carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in North America, one…

March 12, 2015

Anti-abortion laws used to deny rights of pregnant women

A controversial issue raised in the Nov. 4 election was “personhood” — whether fertilized eggs should be defined as persons,…

December 14, 2014

Lac-Mégantic blast victims remembered

Three hundred people gathered July 6 at the Ezra Prentice Basketball Court in South Albany, N.Y., a poor, predominantly Black…

July 13, 2014

The people protest Albany, N.Y., oil trains

At the urging of Albany, N.Y., neighborhood residents who were joined by several environmental organizations, on March 12 Albany County…

March 31, 2014

The Albany, N.Y., oil train: A ticking time bomb

Albany, N.Y. — Thirteen oil-filled tanker rail cars derailed on Feb. 28 at the sprawling CSX rail yard in Selkirk,…

March 11, 2014

Why Debbie Dogskin died

As propane prices soar, 25 states have declared an energy emergency, but it came too late for Debbie Dogskin. And…

February 14, 2014