Tag: health
Ignore the lame excuses: What 300,000 escaped salmon prove about factory...
Sustainable-food advocates want to love aquaculture – yet it comes with so many risks.
China invests $100B in water clean-up projects
For the people's sake, let’s hope China is able to meet their 2017 goals, and perhaps inspire other countries to follow suit.
Vaccine experts react to European court’s controversial decision
A changing attitude toward vaccinations, and increased dangers of litigation toward vaccination production and research companies, is likely to inflate the prices of vital medication that has proven to eradicate lethal diseases like polio.
Bernie Sanders calls for fair pricing on taxpayer-funded drugs
“Sanofi and the rest of the pharmaceutical industry cannot be allowed to make huge profits on the backs of working class Americans.”
Mexico’s methane emissions threaten the environment
In 2013, Mexico emitted 126 million tons of methane into the atmosphere.
Data reveals farmed salmon to be one of the most toxic...
Is this omega-rich food worth the risk?
34 years later, Monsanto’s mysterious mouse tumor study resurfaces
Despite the EPA's ultimate conclusion, the mouse study was among those cited by IARC for classifying glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
California’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan clears state senate
“This is a banner day for California, and a moral model for the nation.”
Judge: EPA’s approval of bee-killing pesticides violated federal law
A U.S. District Court judge held that the EPA had unlawfully issued 59 pesticide registrations between 2007 and 2012 for a wide variety of agricultural, landscaping and ornamental uses.
America’s health is in the hands of GOP frat boys
Trump and his Republican allies don’t care about health care. They’re just out to look busy and cut taxes for the rich.
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Despite media knocks, Maine’s Graham Platner qualifies as this year’s breakthrough Senate campaign star
Who knew a year ago that a scintillating Maine campaign could be a national spark plug to a new progressive movement?
A climatic presidency
Donald Trump gets hot, hot, hot.
Pendulum justice: The greater MAGA’s orgy of outrages, the more change looms
Under duress, wealth shares its spoils,/ But never forsakes its octopus coils.
US-Iran ceasefire deal opens fragile path out of war as Israel threatens to keep...
The interim framework could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pause a war that killed thousands, but unresolved disputes over sanctions, Iran’s nuclear program, frozen assets, and Israel’s military operations leave the deal vulnerable before it is even signed.
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.