New legislation to ban toxic pesticides helps protect children’s health
“The federal pesticide policy is in urgent need of reform.”
Protests continue across Canada in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders fighting fracked gas pipeline
Demonstrations over the past week have halted traffic in downtown Vancouver and shut down railways throughout the country.
‘Our movement didn’t just win. We earned mandate for change,’ says Ilhan Omar after...
“In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records. Despite the attacks, our support has only grown.”
How Tennessee’s justice system allows dangerous people to keep guns — with deadly outcomes
Michaela Carter was one of at least 75 people killed in domestic violence shootings in Nashville since 2007. Nearly 40% were shot by people who were legally barred from having a gun.
Plastic pollution: Could we have solved the problem nearly 50 years ago?
What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?
Donald (disaster) Trump
And worse yet, those groupings are likely to be with us long after our current president has gone off to that great cheeseburger stand in the sky.
In search of a Green New Foreign Policy
To save ourselves and reduce the United States’ harmful global footprint, we need new thinking, new institutions, and a fundamental reordering of priorities.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 30
Vietnam demands compensation from Monsanto for victims of Agent Orange, California on brink of mandating 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Sanders vs. Amazon intensifies, and more.
Study: Financial markets ignore environmental damage
Credit-rating agencies say they can discipline companies that behave badly, and they have in some cases, but research reveals negligible progress.
100+ lawmakers demand moratorium on utility shutoffs to ensure access to services ‘essential to...
“There is absolutely no excuse left for Congress to exclude basic human needs from the next coronavirus stimulus package, or in general,” said Food & Water Action’s Rianna Eckel.