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You Don't Want Any Part of These Particles

Dr. Gary Ginsberg | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Commuting, Cancer, Diesel, Miners, Air Pollution, Cities, Dpm, Air Pollution Health, Environment, Green Living, Green Living Tips, Being Green, Green News

Cities are converting their fleet of buses over to greener cleaner burning natural gas buses and more trucks are being required to wear particle diapers. So urban air is slowing improving. In the meantime, a few tips to duck that diesel plume.

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Dying for Work

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.12.2012

Every day, 12 workers die on the job in America -- often because a corporation has defied regulations or ignored standard safety procedures. Many more die prematurely from work exposure to toxic materials.

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GOP Gives Christmas Gift To Big Coal, Endangers Miners

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Coal Miners, Massey Energy, Video, Miners Black Lung, Miners, Budget, Government Shutdown, Mining, Gop, Black Lung Disease, Democrats, Coal, Coal Mining, Black Lung, Upper Big Branch Mine, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As House Republicans and Democrats patted one another on the back over their new spending agreement Friday, advocates for coal miners we...

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How One Miner Took On Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2011

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- On a July morning four years ago, Charles Scott Howard left his home in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and drove his pickup...

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Best Films and More About Work, for Labor Day

Wyatt Closs | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Way Down in the Hole, Stanley Nelson, Wasteland, Made in Dagenham, Locked Out, A Better Life, Gael Garcia Bernal, Paul Giamatti, Ben Affleck, Miranda Richardson, Brazil, Even the Rain, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Hbo, Too Big to Fail, Ilwu, Wyatt Closs, Summit Entertainment, Kevin Costner, Freedom Riders, Colorado Coalfied War, Sally Hawkins, The Company Men, Chris Weitz, William Hurt, Miners, Curtis Hanson, Eric Eason, Freedom Rides, Demian Bichir, Popwork, Entertainment News

This Labor Day week, we take a look at a listing of nominees for best films, tv shows, and other artistic expressions in what are called the "2011 Workers' Voice Awards" from PopWork USA.

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After Year Of Fanfare, Chilean Minors Return To Poverty

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Caldera, Trapped Chilean Miners, President Sebastian Pinera, Chilean Miners Movie, Poverty, Miners, Impact News

SANTIAGO, Chile — They have an exhibit at the Smithsonian and a line of toys depicting their epic rescue. But most of the 33 men whose saga in a col...

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16 Killed In Ukraine Mine Blast

AP | MARIA DANILOVA | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Ukraine Mines, Ukraine Mine Blast, Miners, Ukraine Mining Explosion, Ukraine Mining Accident, Ukraine, Miners Killed, World News

KIEV, Ukraine — A blast at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine and an elevator collapse at another on Friday killed at least 20 people, officials sai...

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What Makes San Francisco San Francisco?

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Gold Rush, Left Coast, San Francisco Values, California, Miners, Barbary Coast, San Francisco, Northern California, San Francisco-California, Politics News

With all the hullaballoo about "San Francisco Values," I decided to add some facts to the subject. The people of San Francisco are true settlers of this country and helped to build America to what it is today.

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20 Feared Dead In Massive Colombia Mine Blast

AP | FERNANDO VERGARA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colombia Coal Mine, Miners, Colombia, Mining, Colombia Mine, La Preciosa Mine, Geology, Coal Mine Explosion, World News

SARDINATA, Colombia — An explosion likely caused by a methane gas buildup ripped through an underground coal mine in Colombia during a shift cha...

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New Zealand Miners Dead; 'No One Would Have Survived' Says Official

AP | JOE MORGAN and RAY LILLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mine Accident, Miners, New Zelaand Miners Dead, New Zealand, New Zeland Mine Disaster, New Zealand Mine Rescue, New Zealand Miners Die, New Zealand Miners, New-Zealand-Miner-Trapped, New Zealand Mine Explosion, World News

GREYMOUTH, New Zealand — New Zealand held a national day of mourning Thursday for the 29 victims of its worst mining disaster in decades, while ...

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Breaking: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Miners, Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Lisa Jackson, Miners, Clean Coal, Robert Byrd, Spruce Mine Permit, Mountaintop Removal, Joe Manchin, Green Energy, Coal, Green News

Invoking the rule of law and science, the EPA just announced their veto of the 2,300-acre mountaintop removal mining permit at the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.

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My 2010 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Elizabeth Warren, Tea Party, Proposition 8, Mcconnell, Whitman, Reform, Mccain, Awards, China, Steele, Mitch McConnnell, Sarah Palin, Turncoat of the Year, Deficit, Warren, Enough Already, Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Halter, Chickens for Checkups, Turncoat, Health Care, Obamacare, Detroit, Christine Odonnell, Vat, Michael Steele, Bp, Miners, Condit, Democrat, Democrats, Election, Biden, Barack Obama, Assange, Erskine Bowles, Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel, Bowles, Health, Best Comeback, Best of 2010, Coakley, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Worst Politician, Healthcare, Auto Industry, President, President Obama, Prop 8, John Boehner, 2010 Year End, Chandra Levy, Deficit Reduction, Obama, Democratic, Halter, Charlie Rangel, Wikileaks, Most Original Thinker, Vitter, Lieberman, Republican, Blagojevich, Pelosi, Mclaughlin, Clinton, Oil Spill, Gary Condit, Bummest Rap, Julian Assange, Most Stagnant Thinker, Most Defining Political Moment, Arlen Specter, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Spillcam, Sue Lowden, Wall St, 2010 Roundup, Specter, Biggest Loser, Chile, Person of the Year, Most Boring, McLaughlin Group, Gay, Martha Coakley, Worst Lie, Capitalist of the Year, Beau Biden, Meg Whitman, Best Photo Op, Prop 19, Rangel, Biggest Winner, Wall Street, Midterm, Chris Weigant, Proposition 19, Palin, Best Politician, Gulf, Alan Simpson, Boehner, Fairest Rap, Meggles, 2010, Marijuana, Politics News

My apologies to anyone tuning in who was expecting to see the 150th "Friday Talking Points" column, since it will be pre-empted for two weeks here. B...

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TRAGIC: 17-Year Old Was Among Miners Now Declared Dead

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Mine, Christchurch, Joseph Dunbar, Mine Explosion, New Zealand, Teenage Miner, Miners, Pike River Mine, New Zealand Mine, Trapped Miners, Mine Rescue, Pip Timms, Greymouth, World News

A teenage boy who was on the job for just one hour is among the 29 New Zealand coal miners trapped after last Friday's explosion, the New Zealand Hera...

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The Camel and the Cell Phone

Vicky Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chilean Miners, At & T, Delhi, Nokia, Switzerland, NBC News, Pakistan, Beijing, Brazil, Chile, Msn, Inner Mongolia, Great Wall of China, Skype, Camel Safari, Kerry Sanders, Facebook, Olympics, Msnbc, Hebei Province, Lonely Planet, Thar Desert, Middle East, Bird?S Nest, India, Miners, U.S.A., Jaisalmer, Jinshanling, Sumatai, Travel News

We have gotten to a place where we are so interconnected that you can no longer escape, even in some of the most remote spots on earth.

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Chilean Miner Plans To Run In Marathon

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trapped Chilean Miners, Runners, Miners, Running, New York Marathon, Ny News, Chilean Miners, The Marathon, Chilean Miner in New York City Marathon, Chile Miners, Edison Pena, Chile Miners Trapped, New York News

NEW YORK — The Chilean miner who jogged in the tunnels while trapped underground not only will attend Sunday's New York City Marathon – he...

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A Chile Wind Blows CNN Some Good

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Miners, Kathleen Parker, Parker Spitzer, Cnn, Cable News Ratings, Chile Miners, Cable News, MSNBC Ratings, Foxnews, Eliot Spitzer, CNN Ratings, Media News

Given that CNN gained more viewers than its two rivals combined, I would suggest to my successors that they abandon talking about the news and start showing more of it.

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Capitalism didn't save the miners

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Energy, Massey Coal Mine, Chile Miners Rescue, Miners, Don Blankenship, Chile Miners, Chilean Miners, Capitalism, Wall Street Journal, Chile Miners Trapped, Politics News

The WSJ published a ridiculous article yesterday that claims Capitalism saved the Chilean miners, and opens with a boldface lie when writer Daniel Hen...

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Friday Talking Points [143] -- Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Appeal?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, White House, Debate, Moratorium, Nowhere Man, Pentagon, Proposition 8, President Obama, Delaware, Harry Truman, Obama, Democratic Party, Yellow Submarine, Eric Holder, Friday Talking Points, Warren, Tom Miller, Military, Dadt, Town Hall, Midotw, Brown, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Foreclosure, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Christine Odonnell, Court, Foreclosure Crisis, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Miners, Federal, Executive Order, Attorney General, Nationwide Moratorium, Chile, Democrat, Miller, Chris Coons, Gay, Justice Department, Voodoo, Democrats, Barack Obama, Holder, Dolls, Judge, Sea of Holes, Holes, Mortgage, Odonnell, Wall Street, Mddotw, Chris Weigant, Injunction, Iowa, Stay, Jerry Brown, Crisis, Banks, Brass, Desegregation, Coons, Chilean Miners, Poodoo, Politics News

[OK, that was rather a fun title to write, but I have to at least begin with a warning that, while today's column is almost completely Obama-centric i...

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A Major Miner Interruption

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, House of Representatives, Miner Rescue, Television Coverage, Congressional Elections, San Jose Mine, Miners, Chile and Social Media, Congress, Election 2010, Choice 2010, Democrats, Barack Obama, Christine O'donnell, Carl Paladino, Obama Administration, Decision 2010, 33 Miners, Tv Coverage, Midterm Elections, Sebastian Pinera, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Republicans, Chilean Miners, Trapped Chilean Miners, Senate, Gubernatorial Elections, Politics News

I'm angry. It's OK to be angry. In New York, there's a lot to be angry about, so why shouldn't I be angry? I say what's on my mind. If I offended anybody, I apologize. So here's my question: Why am I losing by 20 points?

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WATCH: Chris Matthews Says Tea Party Miners 'Would Have Been Killing Each Other'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hardball, Chris Matthews, Video, Msnbc, Chris Matthews Chilean Miners, Chilean Miners, Chris Matthews Tea Party, Miners, Chris Matthews Chile Tea Party, Media News

Chris Matthews said Wednesday that, if the Chilean miners trapped underground for nearly 70 days had been members of the Tea Party, their "every man f...

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Bidding War for Potash of Saskatchewan?

Michael de Portu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population Growth, Rio Tinto, Monopoly Pricing, Miners, Fertilizers, Food, India, Potash, Mergers, China, Bhp, Business News

If laptops and automobiles could be priced like fertilizer, and withdrawn from the market whenever buyers balk, think about how much better those companies would be doing today.

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Chile Miners Rescued Wearing Oakley Sunglasses (PHOTO, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Oakley Miners, Chilean Miners Sunglasses, Miners, Oakley Chile, Chile Miners, Poll, Chile Miners Sunglasses, Chilean Miners, Chili Miners, Chile Miners Oakley, Miners Sunglasses, Miner Rescue, Oakley Sunglasses, Miners Oakley Sunglasses, Oakley Sunglasses Miners, Miners in Chile, Style News

Update #3 Oakley posted the following on their website about the miners' Oakley sunglasses: The rescue team in Chile is relying on Oakley eyewear t...

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"The Rising" : An Uplifting Playlist for All the Miners in Chile

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

As a rule, songs about miners haven't generally been as upbeat as the news we are watching now on CNN. So here's a largely uplifting playlist for all the miners in Chile, and all the people who love them.

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Mother Jones Is Still Calling Out Deadbeat Coal Barons (on Coal Miner's Day)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Miners, Labor, Dirty Coal, Don Blankenship, Miners, Clean Coal, Mother Jones, Peabody, Chris Cline, Bob Murray, Coal, Massey, Green News

Mother Jones, the miner's angel, may be gone, but Mother Jones magazine just called out International Coal Group -- who gave us the Sago, WV tragedy -- for 20,000 clean water violations.

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Striking South African Unions Vote on Pay Increase Offer

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Strike, Army, Anc, Miners, Police, Public Workers, Zuma, Hospital Workers, World News

South Africa appears to be in the worst shape it has been since successfully switching from white-minority rule following elections in 1994.

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