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Rare Moment of Consensus for Senate on Keystone Pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 21st, 2015
New York Times: The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the Keystone XL pipeline bill that is aimed at improving energy efficiency in buildings — a rare moment of bipartisan agreement in a tense debate that is nowhere near being settled. Lawmakers voted, 91 to 5, to add the popular energy-efficiency provision to a contentious bill that would approve construction of the Keystone pipeline. The amendment, offered by a Republican, Rob Portman of Ohio, and a Democrat, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire,...
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Traces of Montana Oil Spill Are Found in Drinking Water
Posted by New York Times: Eric Killelea and Jack Healy on January 21st, 2015
New York Times: Work crews burrowed through thick ice and set up containment booms Tuesday in a struggle to vacuum up 50,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the Yellowstone River from a ruptured pipeline, contaminating drinking water. The 12-inch steel pipeline, which burst Saturday morning near Glendive, Mont., about 400 miles east of here, sent light crude oil flowing downstream as far as the confluence with the Missouri River, 60 miles away in North Dakota. Health officials warned people not to use tap water...
Pope wants you stop popping out babies — don’t think about birth control
Posted by Grist: None Given on January 21st, 2015
Grist: Yesterday, in a huge change of position for Ye Olde Catholic Churche, Pope “Swaggy F.” Francis spoke out against people reproducing “like rabbits.”
From BBC:
He replied with an unexpected turn of phrase: "Some people think that - excuse my expression here - that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits."
"No. Parenthood is about being responsible. This is clear."
Thanks, Papa! Abandoning the “be fruitful and multiply” and “every sperm is sacred” view of reproduction is...