UnitedHealth reports $7.9 billion Q2 profits as protesters decry coverage denials
Protesters reiterated their commitment to fighting for healthcare justice, emphasizing the need for systemic changes.
One small statement from CDC, one giant hope for our humanity
Tragically, under the previous White House direction and interference, CDC became corrupted and overruled, and its reputation is quite tarnished.
Millions of Americans face water shutoffs during pandemic
“It’s a package of related factors – institutional racism, environmental injustice, and poverty – which means communities most vulnerable to Covid-19 are the same communities most vulnerable to water shutoffs.”
Scientist find microplastics in human organs giving activists more ammo to demand change in...
“It would be naive to believe there is plastic everywhere but just not in us.”
What Really Poisoned the Water in Flint, Michigan
Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country's political morals: namely, an insidious right-wing belief that poor people (particularly people of color who are poor) are underserving moochers whose misfortunes can be ignored.
Until teachers feel safe, widespread in-person K-12 schooling may prove impossible in US
Pressure from teachers has contributed to decisions to refrain from holding classes in person everywhere from Southern California to Northern Virginia.
Encourage Congress to ban factory farms
It is time we fight back and support animal welfare, our environment, and what we put on our dinner plates!
Trump halted an agent orange cleanup. That puts hundreds of thousands at risk for...
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.
93 percent of bottled water contains microplastics
"Please name one human being on the entire planet who wants plastic in his or her bottle."
2.3 million Americans exposed to high levels of strontium in drinking water
High strontium in drinking water is linked to rickets in children, an extremely rare skeletal condition causing soft, sometimes deformed, bones.