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"To Satiate The World’s Demand For Cell Phones, We’re Turning New Zealand’s Pristine Coast Into A Strip Mine" — Ari Phillips — ThinkProgress — September 13, 2013
The author surveys the issues involved with deep seabed mining for valuable minerals like rare earth elements, and compares the risks to the current debate over hydraulic fracking.
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"Republicans Have ‘Out Of Body Experience’ Watching Democrats Support Industry On Law Of The Sea" — Ben Bovarnick and Michael Conathan — ThinkProgress — July 06, 2012
While heads were spinning over last week’s decision by a conservative justice to uphold President Obama’s health care law, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was practicing its own version of Opposite Day.
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