Monthly Archives: October 2021
‘It’s not coming out’: Bernie Sanders stands firm on Medicare expansion
Sanders and other progressives have spent months defending the provisions in the $3.5 trillion, 10-year investment in climate action and social supports for lower- and middle-income families.
Corporate giants promote climate action, but work with oil lobbyists in state capitols
The overlap raises questions about the sincerity of corporate climate commitments.
Plastic pollution in waterways likely to more than double by 2030, poses dire threat...
"This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency to act, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans from source to sea."
10 years after Occupy Wall Street, its legacy remains strong
Occupy rewrote the book on protests. It’s time to turn the page.
US billionaires are now $2.1 trillion richer than before the pandemic
Not only did the wealth of U.S. billionaires grow, but so did their numbers: in March of last year, there were 614 Americans with 10-figure bank accounts. Today there are 745.
Fossil fuel plant run by William Koch at heart of EPA investigation into racism...
“My hope is that they will thoroughly investigate their emissions and their impact on the community and draw what we believe to be an inescapable conclusion that Oxbow is an eminent danger to the life and health of people in Port Arthur and southeast Texas.”
Why America’s health care workers are escalating their fight for fair treatment and patient...
“People are sick and tired, and they’ve had enough, and they’re ready to stand up and fight back.”
Louisiana deputy who slammed a Black woman on the pavement was named in multiple...
Julio Alvarado has been named in nine federal civil rights lawsuits, all involving the use of excessive force.
Smoke from wildfires in the West harms more people in the East, study finds
The research underlines the widespread harms caused by wildfires, which are made worse by human-caused climate change, despite their localized acute destruction.
Corporate veterinarians serve profit over animals
Solo practitioners who became veterinarians to provide friendly, community-based service now must answer to bean counters at headquarters.