Tag: environment
Lake Erie turns toxic every summer. Officials aren’t cracking down on...
Voluntary fixes for the growing — and global — hazardous algae problem aren’t working.
Corporate ‘cage-free’ commitments are only meaningful with accountability
Reducing the suffering of chickens can only happen if companies follow through on their promises.
Replacing coal with renewables could save energy customers $8 billion a...
“We conducted an in-depth, asset-by-asset assessment of the coal fleet in the U.S. and found that >70 GWs of coal capacity will become economically at risk through the course of the next decade.”
The well-funded, well-orchestrated climate change-denial movement
"The climate change counter movement, as I call it, is really an add-on to the already-existing conservative movement in the United States."
Big data, big oil and white supremacy: Unveiling the dark forces...
In his new solo performance piece “The Truth Has Changed,” the “Gasland” director raises an alarm: The Democrats are ill-prepared for Trump’s oncoming misinformation campaign.
Fossil fuel interests applaud Trump admin’s weakening of major environmental law
“The Trump administration would allow powerful industries, like oil and gas extractors, to run roughshod over community interests."
Science-advisory board says Trump administration’s policies run counter to established science
"EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler must immediately withdraw these unlawful proposals that threaten the health and well-being of all Americans."
You’re not so different from an octopus: Rethinking our relationship to...
Animal whisperer, Sy Montgomery, argues that we share greater similarities than differences with our fellow animals, and that fact should make us re-examine our relationships with them.
Forecast for 2020: More oil trains, fires, spills, and the rise...
If past is prelude, the regulatory and market conditions show North America is poised for another rise in “bomb trains.”
Hard times are coming in 2020 and in the decade ahead
The phrase “Happy Nxew Year” is just as out of place now, and we need to realize how absurd it is.
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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.