Eleven cities showing what bold climate action looks like
“The winning projects show that great progress is being made on every continent, and they serve as an inspiration to other cities.”
Meet Alvaro Enciso, the artist placing crosses in Sonoran desert to memorialize migrant deaths
More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to...
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Impending Trump Dakota Access easement is illegal, Standing Rock Sioux say
The move to grease the wheels for dirty energy infrastructure sets the Trump administration up for more clashes with protesters.
Portland
The central question is as old as the Republic itself: What is the limit of federal power?
EPA scientists held from attending Alaska summit
The agency’s last-minute change of plans highlighted the concerns of many conference attendees over the future of EPA programs dealing with climate change.
How federal law can protect all workers on sweltering summer days
“How in the world can you deny your workers an opportunity to get a drink of water?”
The 2024 election could be Big Pharma’s reckoning
It’s clear at this point that the 2024 election could very well hinge on which party can capture the populist mantle on Big Pharma.
Black mom swarmed & beaten by Philly riot police with toddler in car demands...
“The police have not offered an explanation as to why they acted the way they did that night. They responded instead with a police investigation into Rickia.”
Minneapolis agrees to pay $27M settlement to family of George Floyd
“Minneapolis has been fundamentally changed by this time of racial reckoning, and this city council is united in working together with our community and the Floyd family to equitably reshape our city of Minneapolis.”