Tag: Hurricane Maria
Puerto Rico faces a flood of fracked gas in wake of...
The gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.
Vulnerable US citizens are still trapped in the ruins left by...
Abandoned by their country, residents refuse to accept the idea that they will never recover.
Sens. Sanders and Warren call for investigation into FEMA waste and...
“We remain very concerned by reports that FEMA has awarded multi-million dollar contracts for hurricane-related aid to multiple unqualified companies.”
Naomi Klein: A year after Hurricane Maria, there is nothing natural...
Last week, President Trump generated widespread criticism when he falsely claimed on Twitter that thousands of people did not die in the two storms, even as a Harvard study estimated the death toll may top 4,600.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 29
Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, California joins nine other states and enacts trio of gun control bills that affect domestic violence offenders and more.
Puerto Rico’s water system stutters back to normal
“Now I get desperate thinking that a hurricane will come.”
Study finds 5,000 people may have died from Hurricane Maria in...
Cable news covered Roseanne for over 10 hours. They covered Hurricane Maria's death toll in Puerto Rico for just over 30 minutes.
FEMA to shut off aid to Puerto Rico with municipalities still...
A third of Puerto Rico residents are still without electricity and lack access to potable water four months after the Category 4 hurricane hit.
Half of Puerto Rico still in darkness, with no light in...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently estimated complete power restoration by May, leaving 45 percent of the island’s 1.5 million electricity customers in the dark.
Why the Sanders-Warren plan for Puerto Rico is a model for...
To repair after disasters – and prevent future ones – we can’t be afraid to spend public money on things people need.
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Ideas from hell: The far right’s weaponized conspiracy theories
Since the end of April, there have been three mass shootings that can be directly tied to white nationalism. The victims of...
Blackwater mercenary sentenced to life in prison
Responsible for firing the first bullet in the Nisour Square massacre in 2007, former Blackwater security contractor Nicholas Slatten was sentenced Wednesday to life in federal prison. Last year, Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder...
EPA reverses approval of poison traps used to kill wildlife
Last week, Trump’s EPA had made the decision to reauthorize the use of deadly cyanide traps to kill the wild animals that...
Pennsylvania is discharging radioactive fracking waste into rivers as landfill leachate, impacting the Chesapeake...
Edited by Melissa Troutman
Originally published by Joshua B. Pribanic and Talia Wiener for Public Herald edited by Melissa Troutman
Fighting back: Six states sue the EPA over its approval of pesticide linked to...
“The EPA is egregiously sacrificing our children’s health by refusing to make a determination on this dangerous pesticide.”