On AlterNet: fire

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Fired for Wearing the Wrong Color Shirt: The Scary Truth About Our Lack of Workplace Protections

Jake Blumgart, AlterNet. April 3, 2012.

Most American workers labor under the auspices of employment-at-will, which allows employers to hire, fire and promote for good reasons, bad reasons, or no reason at all.

Rick Perry's Hellfire: The GOP Candidate Continues to Deny the Climate Change Linked to the Fires Consuming His State

Mark Hertsgaard, Salon. September 30, 2011.

The Global warming-denying governor and presidential candidate can't escape a major reckoning at home.

The 10 Worst Weather Disasters This Year and Why They Are Happening

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 12, 2011.

We've already had 10 disasters topping $1 billion each and it's only September -- what gives?

Nukes at Risk as Floods and Fires From Extreme Weather Make Us Vulnerable

Tina Gerhardt, AlterNet. June 30, 2011.

Extreme weather may be no match for our aging nuclear fleet and that's bad news millions of Americans who live nearby.

How the West Was Lost: The American West in Flames

Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com. June 16, 2011.

Climate change isn't happening in some distant future. Wildfires in Arizona and Texas remind us that global warming is right here, right now.

A Wildfire Is Burning All Illusions in Israel

Max Blumenthal, Electronic Intifada. December 5, 2010.

The devastating fire has revealed a sad truth: Israel has prioritized offensive military capacity so extensively that it has completely neglected the welfare of its citizens.

French Legionnaire Breaks Rules, Fires Tracer, Sets Chunk of Europe Ablaze

Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise. July 25, 2009.

What happens when you're already in the Foreign Legion when you screw up?

Much Ado About Wing-Nuts, the Arson Attack on Palin's Church, and Hypocrisy

Steven D., Booman Tribune. December 16, 2008.

No one should burn churches in America.

Do You Want Lieberman to Have Subpoena Power to Investigate President Obama?

Robert Greenwald, ZP Heller, Brave New Films. November 11, 2008.

Lieberman smeared Obama, and should not be allowed to caucus with the Democrats.

Lightning Strikes: Get Used to Catastrophic Wildfires and Worse

Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 18, 2008.

In California there were 8,000 lightning strikes in one event, and that was months before fire season. There is more of that in store across the West.

Bush Wildfires Response Can't Atone For Katrina Blunder

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. October 25, 2007.

Too bad Bush didn't race aid to the Gulf Coast as quickly as he did to Southern California.