Sources: Scientific American, September 30, 2008 Title: “European Chemical Clampdown Reaches Across Atlantic” Author: David Biello Environmental Defense Fund, September 30, 2008 Title: “How Europe’s New Chemical Rules Affect US” Democracy Now! February 24, 2009 Title: “US Lags Behind Europe in Regulating Toxicity of Everyday Products” Author: Mark Schapiro Student Researchers: Caitlin Ruxton (SSU), Annie [...]

Source: CounterPunch, August 9, 2008 Title: “Pools of Fire” Author: Jeffrey St. Clair Student Researchers: Krisden Kidd and Karene Schelert Faculty Evaluator: Heidi LaMoreaux, PhD Sonoma State University One of the most lethal patches of ground in North America is located in the backwoods of North Carolina, where Shearon Harris nuclear plant is housed and [...]

Sources: Al Jazeera English, October 11, 2008 Title: “Toxic waste behind Somali piracy” Author: Najad Abdullahi Huffington Post, January 4, 2009 Title: “You are being lied to about pirates” Author: Johann Hari WardheerNews, January 8, 2009 Title: “The Two Piracies in Somalia:  Why the World Ignores the Other” Author: Mohamed Abshir Waldo Student Researcher:  Christine [...]

Source: The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, January 2009 Title: “Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge” Author: Gary Orfield Student Researchers:  Rena Hawkins, Southwest Minnesota State University Melissa Robinson, Sonoma State University Faculty Evaluator:  Sangeeta Sinha, PhD Southwest Minnesota State University Schools in the United States are more segregated today than [...]

Truthout, October 2, 2008 Title: “Lax Oversight? Maybe $64 Million to DC Pols Explains It” Author: Greg Gordon Capitol Eye, February 10, 2009 Title: “Congressmen Hear from TARP Recipients Who Funded Their Campaigns” Author: Lindsay Renick Mayer Rolling Stone, March 19, 2009 Title: “The Big Takeover” Author: Matt Taibbi Student Researchers: Jocelyn Rapp and Caitlin [...]