Mar

28

Sierra Club endorses Clorox’s Greenworks cleaners

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[From Green Daily]
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Clorox has been quite busy going green these days, what with buying up Burt’s Bees and coming out with Greenworks, their line of eco-friendly home cleaning products. Soon, Clorox will have another green credential on their resume, a Sierra Club endorsement.
According to the NY Times, this will be the first product [...]

Mar

27

MAPLight.org Adds New Research Tool to Government Transparency Toolbox

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MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization illuminating the connection between money and politics, announces its partnership with Congresspedia, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation. The partnership combines Congresspedia, the citizens’ encyclopedia on Congress, with MAPLight.org’s Legislator Pages.
“In bringing their data together, MAPLight.org and Congresspedia have joined forces to bring [...]

Mar

27

Court: Mumia Deserves New Hearing

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[From AP]
By KATHY MATHESON
photo credit: Aoife city womanchile

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday said former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer without a new penalty hearing.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Abu-Jamal’s conviction should stand, but that he should get a new [...]

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