Yearly Archives: 2017
After protests, Republicans pull bill that would privatize public lands
Unfortunately we can’t take a lot of time to celebrate the victory, as Rep. Chaffetz has other plans for legislation that affects public lands.
California regulators allow oil companies to continue injecting wastewater into more than 1,600 wells...
According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.
How Trump could easily expand the war against ISIS to the entire Muslim world
It’s time the Trump administration start learning the lessons of the past and stop making the same mistakes again and again.
As media labels Fukushima a “conspiracy theory,” radiation soars to record level
Considering so little is currently understood about the catastrophe, perhaps so-called conspiracy theorists, who doubt the ‘Fukushima is under control, don’t worry about it’ narrative, are the only ones displaying a modicum of common sense.
Seeking more power, Thailand’s new king is moving the country away from being a...
As Vajiralongkorn transforms the nominal powers granted by the constitution into real powers to be exercised at his own discretion a restoration of a hybrid form of monarchical rule is now underway in the Land of Smiles.
Family ties leave taxpayers on hook for Eric Trump’s $100,000 business trip
“The president is now sending his emissaries, his sons, out to line his own pockets, and he’s subsidizing that activity with taxpayer dollars.”
University of California next in line to dump Wells Fargo contracts
The UC system is severing $475 million in contracts with Wells Fargo over, among other things, the bank’s ties to private prison corporations.
Here’s what a defunded EPA means for America
The agency Trump plans to eviscerate does much more than fight climate change.
The State Department suspends Trump’s Muslim ban
The sudden halt of his immigration order has given Trump his first glance as to the limits of his presidential power.
In an era of Trump and DeVos, young women are standing up for each...
Across the country, young women and their allies are speaking out for their rights, safety, and autonomy. And their power is growing.









