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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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.