Tuesday, June 23, 2026

EPA finds 23 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country above agency’s cancer-risk rate

Ethylene oxide is known to cause cancer when people within close proximity to sterilizer facilities breathe the gas in over the course of many years.

Judge deals latest blow to Big Oil in DC climate fraud case

Fossil fuel defendants in climate liability lawsuits keep losing in their bids to keep cases in federal courts.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 28

Bar association calls for FBI probe into Kavanaugh, GOP governors call for delay in Kavanaugh vote, women react to Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, and more.

Decimation of the rainforests and the money men

A completely new approach to so-called development as part of far reaching systemic change is urgently needed.

As Trump claims workers support shutdown for border wall, unpaid federal employees set record...

"My husband is furloughed due to the Trump shutdown. This is a very stressful time, and believe me, my husband does not want that wall."

Donald Trump and the Extreme Vetting of Muslims

Trump hopes for a bounce in the polls via this ugly religious bigotry. Here's to hoping that Americans are better than that.

UAW files federal charges against Trump and Musk over anti-union intimidation

Union accuses Trump and Musk of illegal threats as the fight over workers’ rights intensifies.

Report shows ‘stunning and dramatic’ scenes of thawing permafrost in Siberia that ‘leaves millions...

"Rivers are rising and running faster, and entire neighborhoods are falling into them."

Rethugs on a roll—downwards, chancing national threatened species status?

They “won” by owning the Supreme Court,/ Then lost when marked "cruel spoilsport."

Biden approval among Democrats falls 11 points as he greenlights Israeli assault on Gaza

"Biden's immediate and decisive show of support for Israel following the October 7 attacks by Hamas appears to have turned off some in his own party," wrote a Gallup research consultant.