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Keystone Conflict: Nebraska Firm Reviewing Tar Sands Project Has Ties to Pipeline Builder

OnEarth | Posted 02.06.2013 | Green
Read More: Tar Sands, Nebraska Department of Environment Quality, HDR Engineering, Hdr, Cardno Entrix, Bold Nebraska, Nebraska, State Department, Transcanada, Alberta, Sandhills, Keystone XL, Ogallala Aquifer, Pipeline, Ndeq, Nebraska Pipeline, Green News
OnEarth

Conflict-of-interest concerns have plagued the Keystone project from the beginning. Now it turns out that HDR, the engineering and consulting firm hired by Nebraska to conduct an environmental impact assessment of the project, has a cozy relationship with the company it was supposed to evaluate.

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We're Now Number 77 in Income Inequality (Tied With Turkmenistan)

Gar Alperovitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Oecd, Irs, Turkmenistan, Income Inequality, Wealth Gap, Purchasing Power Parity, Income, Wealth Distribution, Hdr, Unhdr, Politics News
Gar Alperovitz

The top one percent of American taxpayers increased their share of the nation's total pre-tax adjusted gross income from 10 percent in 1980 to 23.5 percent in 2007. These are not routine numbers.

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