“This is a win for our city”: Chicago teachers celebrate end of historic strike...
After weeks of tense negotiations, the city agreed to reduce class sizes, increase salaries by 16% over the next five years and bring on hundreds more social workers, nurses and librarians.
In ‘glimmer of accountability,’ executives, loggers charged in 2014 murders of four Indigenous land...
Environmental campaigners called the charges "unprecedented."
Will Trump resign — refuse nomination, or face tar and feathers?
Even without more likely incriminating evidence, everything Trump does and says from now on will amplify the growing national consensus here is the King of Presidential Corruption.
EPA to weaken rules to control toxic coal ash in water
Environmental activists plan to challenge these rollbacks in court. Let’s hope they succeed.
Risk assessment: Thoughts on ‘a climate security plan for America’
“A Climate Security Plan for America”, if it had been covered by the press, could actually make a difference in changing the minds of some in the political center more inclined to believe the U.S. military than scientists or activist groups.
Correctional officers plead guilty to beating handcuffed inmate and attempted cover-up
“These defendants knowingly violated the constitutional rights of an inmate and then lied to cover it up, thereby abusing the powers that the public entrusted to them.”
Senate Republicans: Stuck between a rock and a hard place
In a relatively short period of time, we Americans will be watching as a monumental event in this nation’s history takes place.
Keystone leaks 383,000 gallons in North Dakota on the same day as Trump state...
“The Keystone XL pipeline was a bad idea when it was proposed 11 years ago, and it remains a bad idea today.”
EPA disbanded a clean air science panel. We met anyway – and here’s what...
The nongovernmental panel of experts found that particle pollution regulations aren’t protecting public health, but that's not the only worrying trend at EPA.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg declines Nordic environmental prize saying “the climate movement does not...
“I have received the Nordic Council’s environmental award 2019. I have decided to decline this prize.”