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Forty-five years ago at the nascent Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado, where I worked on the non-technical side, part of our mission was to come up with ideas or scrutinize others’ ideas for making solar and wind a major factor in...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Over on Twitter, political commentator Krystal Ball made an interesting claim: What she's referring to is an obscure & fascinating nugget buried in the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act: Section 10323, which states: SEC. 10323. MEDICARE COVERAGE...
by Brainwrap
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on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 02:48 PM PST
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Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us. INTRODUCTION I have a special affinity for a certain kind of book. Because of...
by Tortmaster
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on Wed May 11, 2022 at 05:02 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise above ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Most recently, 100 mph winds swept grass-fires through Colorado, leaving thousands homeless. It was 116 degrees here in Portland last summer, as wildfires and drought ravage the West. The Gulf Coast, South and Eastern Seaboard are now annually torn...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Jan 03, 2022 at 06:51 AM PST
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This is just a quick write-up of something I found interesting happening in Canada. After 180 years of being known as Asbestos … Site used to be one of the largest asbestos mines in the world but residents now want it to be called Val-des-Sources...
by Eyesbright
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on Tue Oct 20, 2020 at 04:37 PM PDT
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Upon hearing that Greta Thunberg had called for divestment of fossil fuel companies, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin retorted, “It’s a joke. After she goes and studies economics in college she can go back and explain that to us.” This comment brought...
by amadon
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on Sun Jan 26, 2020 at 12:04 PM PST
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We hardly needed internal memos to suspect this, but The New York Times found the internal memos and confirmed it: Trump appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency brushed aside warnings from ...
by Hunter
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on Fri May 10, 2019 at 05:30 PM PDT
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Recently, North Carolina has been making national headlines for its tawdry and tainted congressional election, but for some observers, an equally interesting civil courts drama is playing out in the Tar Heel State: Iconic big-money asbestos lawyers are...
by CACourtsMonitor
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on Mon Mar 04, 2019 at 08:03 AM PST
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I was going to take the time to write a follow up diary in response to the self-aggrandizing comments that I had read in my previous diary, saying how valuable pharma companies are, and how they are god’s gift to humanity, and we should all thank them...
by liberalMedStudent
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on Fri Dec 14, 2018 at 01:22 PM PST
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It has been widely accepted since Trump’s poorly attended inauguration that he epitomizes a despicably bad human being. A pair of related stories late last week confirmed that Trump is inherently ...
by Rmuse
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on Mon Aug 13, 2018 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Trump’s associations have included many mob bosses. And like a Don, Trump obtains protection from his followers and dispenses indulgences to his favorites. Devin Nunes Admits Protecting Trump Is the Goal On Wednesday night, Rachel Maddow of...
by bmethven
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on Sat Aug 11, 2018 at 06:32 PM PDT
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There is a town in Russia called Asbest which is the center of Russia’s asbestos mining; one of the so-called “monotowns” wherein the Soviets created engines of their economy by centering an entire town region upon one industry. In this case it was...
by veritas curat
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on Fri Aug 10, 2018 at 05:40 PM PDT
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Donald Trump is an asbestos denier, one of a rarefied few who makes Flat Earth believers look brilliant by throwing doubt at the connection between asbestos and lung cancer. And the EPA, Trump’s go-to agency when it comes to making day-to-day life...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Aug 10, 2018 at 12:09 PM PDT
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I fix up old buildings and lease them out for a living. As a result I deal with asbestos a lot so I have some background on this issue. I’ve been on sites doing remediation and spent weeks of my life reading reports from surveys so when I read laymen...
by txjackalope
198 comments
on Thu Aug 09, 2018 at 10:39 AM PDT
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At some point, you may have experienced a moment of doubt. A moment that goes something like “This Trump guy, sure he looks, and acts, and sounds like a racist buffoon who thinks a Windsor knot is man’s highest achievement, but … what if that’s all a...
by Mark Sumner
249 comments
on Thu Aug 09, 2018 at 04:50 AM PDT
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If you want to put cancer-causing asbestos back into some manufacturing, Donald Trump is your man. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is doing less people and environment protecting every day under the Trump administration, is considering...
by Jen Hayden
178 comments
on Tue Aug 07, 2018 at 09:27 AM PDT
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This one really boggles the mind. Just saw this now, so if it was discussed in the last month or two, feel free to ignore.
One of the most dangerous construction-related carcinogens is now legally allowed back into U.S....
by Paleo
26 comments
on Tue Aug 07, 2018 at 08:51 AM PDT
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It seems like I read more and more unbelievable things that turn out to be true every day. This one shows just one more thing that Drumpf has gifted to Russia and Uralasbest, a Russian asbestos company, knows who to thank (and praise, don’t forget the...
by Eyesbright
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on Sat Jul 21, 2018 at 12:01 PM PDT
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Johnson & Johnson has been hit with multiple lawsuits recently surrounding what they did and did not know about the contents of their famed “baby powder,” and its potential relationship with cervical and ovarian cancer. There are over 9,000 similar...
by Walter Einenkel
108 comments
on Fri Jul 13, 2018 at 12:01 PM PDT
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