Deirdre Fulton

In ‘David vs. Goliath’ Fracking Case, Families Handed Major Win

A court on Thursday handed down a $4.2 million verdict—and vindication—to two Pennsylvania families who said fracking contaminated their water.

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"$4.2 million will not bring back drinkable well water to the long-suffering families of Dimock, Pennsylvania," said anti-fracking activist Sandra Steingraber on Thursday. (Photo: AP)

A 10-person jury in court on Thursday handed down a $4.2 million verdict—and vindication—to two Pennsylvania families who refused to settle in a case pitting homeowners in the village of Dimock against a Houston-based fossil fuels company. After a two-week trial at the U.S. District Court in Scranton, the federal jury found that Cabot Oil &

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Tens Of Thousands Join UK Anti-Nuke Demo Billed As Biggest In Generation

‘We are not alone,’ Jeremy Corbyn tells crowd. ‘There are many people around the world…who have wanted a non-nuclear future for their country and their planet.’

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Early estimates had Saturday's crowd in the "many tens of thousands." (Photo: @GreenpeaceUK/Twitter)

In what was called "Britain’s biggest anti-nuclear weapons rally in a generation," tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday to protest the UK's nuclear weapons system—Trident—and to call for global disarmament. According to the Guardian, "Campaigners gathered from across the world: some said they had traveled from Australia to

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European Groups Expose ‘Terrifying Extent Of Corporate Grab’ Within TTIP

‘The ability to enact effective and fair tax systems to finance vital public services is one of the defining features of sovereignty,’ says Global Justice Now—one that is threatened by corporate trade deals.

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Even with global inequality at historic highs and corporate tax evasion in the public spotlight, a new report out Monday shows how a so-called free trade deal between the U.S. and European Union could further threaten tax justice, hampering governments' ability to ensure that critical public services are well funded or to pursue progressive tax

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Record Exonerations In 2015 Show False Convictions ‘Tragic, Widespread’

Statistics from National Registry ‘scary for anyone who cares about fair and equal justice.’

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A room full of inmates are seen in their bunk beds at Southeastern Correctional Institution Wednesday, April 22, 2009 in Lancaster, Ohio. Ohio's prisons are at 132 percent capacity and space is squeezing tighter by the day, says prisons director Terry Collins. It's a nationwide problem as the economy escalates crime-causing tensions, worrying prison directors who must contend with the discomfort, violence, facility fatigue and lack of adequate programming staff. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Last year set a new record for exonerations in the United States, according to statistics published Wednesday by the National Registry of Exonerations, a project of the University of Michigan Law School. At least 149 defendants were cleared in 2015, 10 more than in 2014. They had, on average, spent 14 and a half years in prison, the report (pdf)

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Flint All Over Again? Lead Poisoning Scandal Strikes Ohio Town

State Environmental Protection Agency has asked the U.S. EPA to open a criminal investigation into what occurred in Sebring

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Sebring, Ohio, Water Crisis: This Village Could Be the Next Flint, Michigan Inside a community center in Sebring, Ohio Source: Scott Meeker

Schools in Sebring, Ohio were closed for a third day on Tuesday and pregnant women and children have been advised not to drink the water, after tests showed elevated levels of lead in the local water supply. Though the village of about 4,300 in northeastern Ohio is much smaller than Flint, Michigan, the drinking water crises in the neighboring

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Human Rights Watch Issues Call To Shut Down Israeli Settlement Businesses

‘The only way for businesses to comply with their own human rights responsibilities is to stop working with and in Israeli settlements.’

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Stolen land in the Hebron hills

Decrying "an inherently unlawful and abusive system that violates the rights of Palestinians," Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called for all businesses to stop operating in and dealing directly with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. The report, Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to

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On Behalf Of City Poisoned By Water, Residents File Suit Against Gov. Snyder

Meanwhile, officials probe possible link between water crisis and deadly cases of Legionnaires’ Disease.

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Tap water in a Flint hospital on Oct. 16, 2015. (Photo: Joyce Zhu / Flintwaterstudy.org)

Michigan residents who say they've suffered injury from drinking lead-contaminated water have filed a class-action lawsuit against Gov. Rick Snyder, the state, and the city of Flint. Plaintiffs Doris Collins, Robin Pleasant, and Jason Phinisee, all Flint residents who paid for—and in some cases continue to pay for—undrinkable water, filed the

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