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Trump Administration Says It Isn’t Anti-Science as It Seeks to Slash EPA Science Office
The Office of Research and Development has been at the front lines of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.
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New Study Finds “More Sweatshops Than Starbucks” in Chicago
“Employers know they can get away with abuse.”
Shell in Deal With Top University to Influence Its Curriculum
Shell has a contractual agreement with a major Dutch university, allowing it to influence curriculum and “the profile of its students.”
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War in Afghanistan Is Killing Children in Record Numbers in 2017
2016 was the deadliest year for Afghan children and 2017 threatens to be worse with a 21 percent increase in deaths.
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Comcast Threatens Legal Action Against Net Neutrality Proponents
If FCC chairman Ajit Pai's plan is enacted, there would be nothing preventing Comcast from simply blocking sites that are critical of their corporate policies.
Lawsuit Targets Potential Cancer Threat in the South’s Farming Communities
Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, is widely used on cropland across the South.
Massachusetts Let Spectra Energy Secretly Edit Its Pollution Permit in Atlantic Bridge Gas Project
This privilege of reviewing and editing the draft approval was granted exclusively to Spectra and not to the general public.
In the Face of Trump’s Surveillance Threats, Local Movements Demand Disclosure of Police Technologies
Local and state governments across the U.S. are demanding transparency in police use of surveillance technology.
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In Istanbul, a Sense of Purpose and a Window Into War
A vacation in Turkey has turned into a vocation to help refugees and asylum seekers for New Yorker Amal Ahmed.
Dahr Jamail | Scientists Predict There Will Be No Glaciers in the Contiguous US by 2050 — but Trump Is Stomping on the Gas Pedal
Sea-level rise is now projected to be even higher than expected, and warming oceans are losing their oxygen much faster than previously believed.