Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Tag: environment

MAHA report emphasizes environmental exposure to chemicals damaging health of Americans

The report, which supported independent gold standard science, strongly linked toxic chemicals to “the chronic disease crisis facing America’s children.”

Fighting for the planet means sovereignty for the Sahel

At the core of most demands for the U.S. empire, we’re asking for kindergarten ethics—is that a stretch? It’s what the climate...

NOAA: 2025 Atlantic hurricane season predicted to be above normal with...

NOAA predicts a 60 percent chance of it being “above normal,” a 30 percent chance of it being near normal and a 10 percent chance that it will be below normal.

Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands

DOGE cuts are killing Americans.

Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat

It attributes part of this loss to ranches indirectly supplying cattle to meatpacking giant JBS, with nearly all of the deforestation since 2013 being illegal. 

Governor Hochul to make New York center of nuclear revival in...

Governor Kathy Hochul has also become involved in promoting nuclear power nationally.

GOP advances sweeping plan to fast-track drilling, mining, and logging on...

A new Republican bill would open millions of acres of protected land to fossil fuel and timber companies while gutting environmental review processes, in a bid to help fund massive tax cuts.

See the world and save the planet: 10 incredible places that...

Purpose-driven travel offers unforgettable experiences that foster environmental stewardship, cultural connection, and lasting impact.

Huge pollution footprint flows from commercial communications satellites in orbit

Scientists are asking if the United States is prepared to handle the impacts.

Renewables generated 43% of electricity used by Australia’s main power grid...

It was the highest first-quarter share of renewables in the 25-year history of the National Energy Market.

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A community hospital emergency entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

F is for Failure and Fascism

On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
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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.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo: NOAA, public domain

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.
Farmworkers harvest sweet potatoes. Photo: USDA, public domain

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.