How the EPA and the Pentagon downplayed a growing toxic threat
A family of chemicals – known as PFAS and responsible for marvels like Teflon and critical to the safety of American military bases – has now emerged as a far greater menace than previously disclosed.
The struggle for what’s essential
Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.
China’s top grain producing province bans GM crops
Growing of GM corn, rice and soybean will be banned, while illegal production and sales of GM crops and supply of their seeds will also be prohibited.
Short supplies and price increases give major hospital systems and philanthropies idea to launch...
"The folks who are gouging people and creating shortages, they know who they are. And they're the ones who should be very concerned."
It’s time to put food policy back on the table
The demand for organic is now outstripping the supply.
‘Egregious’: DOL finds US meatpacking plants illegally employed 100+ children
The federal probe revealed that Packers Sanitation Services had children as young as 13 "working with hazardous chemicals and cleaning meat processing equipment including back saws, brisket saws, and head splitters."
Trump’s deadly ego trip
With his ego at stake on health care, the people who voted for Trump are in grave danger of losing their health coverage.
How public health partnerships are encouraging Covid-19 vaccination in 4 states
Public health and communications experts from Michigan, Indiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina discuss efforts to encourage people in their states and local communities to get vaccinated.
Community groups and activists pivot to mutual aid amid ongoing water crisis in Jackson,...
With 150,000 residents still lacking safe drinking water, grassroots organizations are scrambling to address a crisis decades in the making.
International pharmaceutical company announces $35 cap on insulin in the US
The changes, which represent a 70 percent decrease in price, will go into effect at the end of 2023.