Trump’s EPA refuses to set limits on toxic chemicals in drinking water
"This administration prioritizes corporate profits over public safety, pure and simple."
This is how COVID-19 is affecting indigenous people
The indigenous also suffer from a relatively high degree of socio-economic marginalization that makes them more vulnerable. This dynamic is not new.
Ohio lawmakers approve most extreme abortion ban in the nation
The bill would ban abortion at six weeks into a woman’s pregnancy.
As heat wave sweeps the globe, new study warns of deadly link between rising...
The study warns up to 26,000 more people could die by suicide in the United States by 2050 if humans don’t reduce emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.
We have the money to fix our food system
Imagine supporting farmers markets, child nutrition, and local agriculture with money we spend on factory farms.
As the planet warms and mosquitos thrive, one billion people could be exposed to...
“The risk of disease transmission is a serious problem, even over the next few decades."
“This is not our first pandemic”
Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic.
20 million acres of U.S. cropland may be contaminated by PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
“The EPA could today require treatment plants to test sludge for PFAS and warn farmers that they may be contaminating fields, but it has refused to do so.”
A last resort that might work: Small town votes in community bill of rights...
Opposing a pipeline, residents in Waterville, Ohio, passed a new law to protect their right to clean air, water, and soil.
America doesn’t have a public health system
There is no public health system in the U.S., in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense.