Why High Speed Rail Actually Needs to be, Well, High Speed

Why High Speed Rail Actually Needs to be, Well, High Speed

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Photo via Inhabitat When Obama announced plans to build high speed rail corridors in the US, it was some of the most exciting news I'd heard from his then-nascent administration. Yes, it was universally recognized that the $8 billion allotted in the stimulus bill (combined with an additional billion a year for the next five years in the budget) was hardly enough to build a rail corridor--much less complete the ambitious plans for rail around the country. Yet slowly but surely, the plans a...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Report: Exxon Paid NO Federal Income Tax in 2009

Report: Exxon Paid NO Federal Income Tax in 2009

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Photo via the Telegraph For Americans, the deadline to file taxes is fast approaching. It's not a happy time for anyone: the inconveniences of hassling through all those forms, the belt-tightening, even corporations are cutting back in order to--what's that? Oh, hm. It appears that ExxonMobil, the biggest American corporation there is, paid no federal income taxes in 2009. Yes, despite record profits of a whopping $45 billion, the oil giant paid zilch in federal income taxes, a new Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fracking Is Finally Getting Some Attention and Regulation

This is what caused our pollution of our water wells in Hoffman Estates.

Fracking Is Finally Getting Some Attention and Regulation

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From Jargon Watch: Fracking One would think that a process that pumped all kinds of chemicals into the ground would be subject to environmental scrutiny, but it isn't; in 2004 the Bush Administration "concluded that the process was safe and didn't warrant further study, because there was "no unequivocal evidence" of health risks, and the fluids were neither necessarily hazardous nor able to travel far underground." As John noted earlier in Read the full story on TreeHugger