Over 84 million people forcibly displaced by climate emergency, insecurity, and violence
“The international community must redouble its efforts to make peace, and at the same time must ensure resources are available to displaced communities and their hosts.”
Striking Massachusetts nurses outwait corporate giant Tenet
Last year’s longest-running strike came to an end in early January when nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, overwhelmingly voted...
A correlation between air pollution and diabetes found in new study despite current EPA...
"Evidence shows that current levels are still not sufficiently safe and need to be tightened.”
Inequality and the coronavirus
Or how to destroy American society from the top down.
What grade should America get for its response to Covid-19?
Actually, it’s not America that should receive a grade for the response to Covid-19. It’s Trump, of course, whose response to this threat has been pathetic and a catastrophe.
EPA shuts down leaking oil refinery in St. Croix over ‘imminent’ public health threat
“This is a majority-Black island in a U.S. territory. It is located next to public housing. If this refinery were located most anywhere else in the country, it would have been shut down months ago.”
Organic Farmers Score New Victory in ‘David and Goliath’ GMO Fight
Jackson County, Oregon wins new protections against cultivation of genetically engineered crops.
Toxic Turf
What is being done to our young people?
The big fix: Will the GOP turn to Dems to fix Obamacare?
Democrats must demand clear, popular amendments that demonstrate they are committed to extend the right to affordable health care.
Army Corps orders environmental review of proposed Formosa plastics plant in Louisiana’s ‘cancer alley’
If built, the plastics plant would pump air pollutants into surrounding communities and contribute more to climate change than three coal power plants. Corps announcement deals significant blow to project’s backers.