Tag: environment
Air pollution is linked to permanent vision loss, study finds
University College London researchers hypothesized that air pollution might heighten the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration.
Biden signs executive order to protect 30 percent of country’s lands...
The 30x30 goal is said to be part of Biden's larger plan to preserve wildlife and combat global warming.
Restoring our water systems should be top priority for Biden administration
Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress.
Decoding the hype behind the natural gas industry’s hydrogen push
The oil and gas industry is once again trying to disrupt the renewable energy process, this time with methane-derived hydrogen.
Tell Congress to #StopLine3
Congress must stop the expansion of a dying tar sands industry and #StopLine3 construction immediately.
A groundbreaking court case argues U.S. climate denial policy violates Americans’...
Our broken environmental policy treats nature as a human resource. Here’s how it can be fixed.
What we’ve lost: The species declared extinct in 2020
The causes of these extinctions range from diseases to invasive species to habitat loss, but most boil down to human behavior.
Midnight rush: 6 ways Trump trashed the environment during the holidays
Trump’s team continued its unprecedented onslaught on environmental regulations, with nearly a dozen new rollbacks or threats to public health, wildlife, clean air, public lands and the climate.
The hopeful return of polar whales
The scale of this industrial harvest completely decimated many populations of large whales in the Southern Ocean.
Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then polluted water drove...
Rural communities in Oregon paid millions of dollars for clean, safe drinking water because the state didn’t protect their watersheds from logging-related contamination.
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The power of Latinas’ Trump regret could swing this election
While Latinas were less likely to back Trump, their strides to the right fueled his reelection. Their regret could now propel Democrats.
In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season
“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
515 donors gave $4.2 billion to 2026 super PACs, Public Citizen finds
Elon Musk alone gave $445 million, about 10% of the total, according to the group's analysis of FEC data through late October.
ICE lists 36 detainee deaths in fiscal 2026, most since 2018
The agency's own page shows 29 deaths by mid-April and seven more through Aug. 23; DHS has said the size of the detained population explains the rise.
Insurers drop Medicare Advantage plans for 1 million seniors
KFF counted 193 counties with no Medicare Advantage drug plan open to general enrollment in 2027, up from 123 this year