Thursday, September 3, 2026

Tag: UC Davis

UC Davis Sued for Failing to Release Public Records on GMOs...

"So far, documents obtained from other universities have shown secretive funding arrangements and covert efforts to use taxpayer-funded university resources to promote the products of various corporations. The public has a right to know what is going on behind the scenes."

UC Davis Spent Over $175K to Hide Pepper-Spraying Search Results on...

Instead of accepting its tarnished reputation, UC Davis chose to remove as many search results of the incident as possible while continuing to increase the tuition of its students.

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National Guard troops. Photo: Sgt. Skyler Schendt (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

150 groups back think tank targeted by Trump’s $5 billion lawsuit threat

Trump's attorney gave the nonprofit four days to retract a report finding no crime-reduction effect from military deployments, or face a lawsuit seeking $5 billion in damages.
USPS delivery trucks. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement

In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, one of the low-lying Pacific nations facing rising seas as the 1.5°C target slips away. Photo: mrlins, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What...

It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.
Taiwan's Central Mountain Range, home to the Bunun and other Indigenous communities. Photo: Lord Koxinga, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Displaced by a typhoon, Taiwan’s Bunun people fear for the future of their culture

Nestled high on a mountain slope in southern Taiwan, Tengjhih was a key settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people. Today, however, little remains but memories of the hamlet.  Wild grass sprouts around abandoned houses. Stray dogs have made the empty streets their territory.
A Mojave desert tortoise, a species opponents said the data center project threatened. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Federal panel halts first data center planned for US public land

The board found regulators reused a three-year-old environmental review written for a solar plant, never studying the data center's own effect on water, power or a threatened desert tortoise.