Jeff Biggers: Historic Senate Hearings on Clean Water Protection Act Today: We All Live Downstream

In memory of Zachary Davidson

“It hurled like a cannonball into Dennis and Cindy Davidson’s house, right through the wall of the bedroom and onto the bed where 3-year-old Jeremy was sleeping. The huge boulder continued its path, crashing through a closet before finally stopping at the foot of 8-year-old Zachary’s bed. Zachary would be fine. Jeremy was crushed to death. A bulldozer operator widening a road at a strip mining operation atop Black Mountain had unknowingly dislodged the half-ton boulder that August night.

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  Though climate change and human rights are important corporate responsibility issues on their own terms, they are increasingly interrelated.
  As our global climate destabilizes…
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  Three-quarters of Americans think the federal government should regulate the release into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases from power plants, cars and factories to reduce global warming…
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  About 10 months ago M2E Power, a startup that has been developing motion-powered chargers and energy storage devices, showed us photos of a motion-powered external cell-phone charger it had been working on.

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