Agrivoltaics: the farm-to-solar trend that can help accelerate the renewable energy transition
Using the same land for the production of both agriculture and solar energy is a win-win for the climate and farmers.
States are putting prisoners to work manufacturing coronavirus supplies
The decision to continue to use incarcerated workers for hazardous work that could expose them to the coronavirus or facilitate the spread within the facility lies with corrections authorities and emergency management officials.
In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of for-profit medicine’
"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."
New lawsuit filed in next chapter of Dimock, Pennsylvania, fracking water pollution saga
“My guts are full of tumors.”
Mental health illness: a global tragedy by design
The world we are living in, with its constant noise, demands and pressures; the destructive ideologies, divisions and unjust systems, works against such inner quiet and mental well-being.
Advocates pressure EPA to consider public health over Monsanto profits
The Environmental Protection Agency is currently green-lighting the continued use of cancer-linked glyphosate in the United States for another 15 years. Those...
Japanese fisheries collapsed due to pesticides, new research says
"Let's hope this is a wake-up call for Asian countries and they move to quickly ban the chemicals from paddyfields."
Here Are the Republicans Who Blocked Flint Assistance but Received Disaster Aid for Their...
These Republicans have received federal disaster aid in the past for their own states, but claim the Flint crisis is the responsibility of state and local authority.
Taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic. Instead, the company...
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile.
About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers’ wallets
And when food goes bad, the land, labor, water, chemicals and energy that went into producing, processing, transporting, storing and preparing it are wasted too.