2017 World Water Week: ‘Water and waste: reduce and reuse’
Water is key to our future prosperity, and together, we can achieve a water wise world.
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.”
New abortion law in Georgia criminalizes abortion after six weeks. Women who do face...
"Bans like this have always been blocked by courts. We will be suing Georgia to make sure this law has the same fate."
You Don’t Matter to Drugmakers
Big pharma executives are going all out to paint themselves as the good guys — just not to you.
Judge blocks Monsanto’s bid to stop California from listing glyphosate as carcinogenic
Monsanto plans to challenge the ruling and insists on the safety of glyphosate.
A digital path to health for all
Global leaders at the recent annual gathering of the World Health Assembly in Geneva expressed worry and optimism in almost equal measure. Delegates at...
This City Wants to Ban Junk Food From Vending Machines
New legislation would nix unhealthy items from property owned by the city of San Francisco.
The Pandemic is us (but now mostly them)
Power, wealth, and justice in the time of COVID-19.
Universal Lifetime Insurance
Is this socialism? Well, no doubt. But it doesn’t undercut our present system. It just gives everyone a guarantee of something to look forward to
Flint Residents Charged the Highest Rates in the Country to Drink Poisoned Water
Flint residents were not only drinking contaminated water for months, they were being forced to pay over double the average rate for a typical American family.