Oil spill prevention law helps contain leak at Shell Puget Sound Refinery
"No oil in the water is acceptable for any of us who do this kind of work."
Midwest midterms hold keys to victory in 2020
“Democrats in these states ran on health care, education, and other bread-and-butter issues."
Erica Garner: Rest in peace … and justice
Erica, who died after suffering a massive heart attack, worked tirelessly for justice for her father, Eric Garner.
Texas nonprofit aims to solve two problems: Homelessness and environmental cleanup
To date, the program has paid out over $100,000 in earned income and helped 24 individuals experiencing homelessness secure stable housing.
On infinity: Or how long MAGA clown shows pander to cult derangement
When, pray tell, comes the knockout punch,/ Who and what gobbles Donald’s lunch? Come what, come may, let sleazebags boast:/ No miracle looms—this mob is toast.
Marriott hotel strikers set a new industry standard
Their common demands focused on three areas – job security, workload, and wages and benefits – and the slogan, “One Job Should Be Enough.”
Anita, Christine, and Me
For those of us still struggling to move forward, the memory of the hearings, and all it represented, will be seared, as Dr. Ford might have put it, into the hippocampus, never to fade.
Worries about foreign ‘hacking’ of vaccine research place corporate profits ahead of public health
The Times fully admits that this alleged hacking would not harm U.S. public health, but only the profits of U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
GOP plan would force poor Americans to pay more for Medicaid to fund tax...
A Republican-backed budget proposal would slash healthcare access for millions by imposing new Medicaid fees on low-income Americans while paving the way for massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
To help Australia, look to Aboriginal fire management
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive.