How America can stop violence against health care workers
“The severity seems to keep going up. It doesn’t go down.”
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.
I couldn’t go to Standing Rock, so I closed my bank accounts instead
There are 38 banks supporting the Dakota Access pipeline. I found out mine was one of them.
“My whole heart is with you tonight”: A letter to the Dakota Access front...
We have survived this nation-state’s will for us because we are a fire that their water cannons cannot extinguish.
With pipeline losing $20 million a week, DAPL battle moves to court
In the meantime, organized resistance against DAPL continues.
Catastrophic antibiotic threat from food
As with improper and excessive pesticide use, the abuse of antibiotics is mainly of concern when it affects national reputations abroad and related export earnings.
Drinking water for millions in rural America contaminated with suspected carcinogen
Farmers are largely exempt from federal or state regulations that could stem water pollution.
Experts warn anticipated death toll rise to far over the projected 60,000 if US...
“Even if social distancing standards were relaxed, it wouldn’t restore the health of the economy as some protesters have implied it would.”
A plant that sterilizes medical equipment spews cancer-causing pollution on tens of thousands of...
Beal, of the EPA, said that the Biden administration has “reinvigorated its commitment to protect public health from toxic air emissions from industrial facilities.” And she said ethylene oxide in particular is a major priority.
The US promised tribes they would always have fish, but the fish they have...
Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica did our own testing, and we found what public health agencies have not: Native tribes in the Columbia River Basin face a disproportionate risk of toxic exposure through their most important food.