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The Open Pit and the Great Green Macaw in Costa Rica
The story of how Costa Ricans implemented a nationwide ban against new open pit mining has turned out to be a very different story.
Obama’s Heroin Strategy: Treating Addiction or Arming the Drug War?
Some reformers fear the White House's new plan for treating heroin addiction as a public health issue will actually fuel the failed war on drugs.
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Hundreds of Detained Children and Mothers Could Soon Be Released
Roughly 1,400 mothers, fathers and children locked up awaiting their asylum hearings could soon be released.
The Corporations Funding the Lawyers to Fight the Clean Power Plan
Lawyers from coal-dependent states, led by West Virginia, are challenging President Obama's Clean Power Plan.
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“No Place for a Kid to Go”: A Group Home for “At-Risk” Youth Sinks Into Crisis
California is trying to move away from group care altogether, having concluded it is largely a failure.
Drought Relief Bill Threatens to Drown Sacred Sites of a Northern California Tribe
Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in California are bracing for one of their biggest environmental justice struggles yet.
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Thirty Miles From Selma, a Different Kind of Civil Rights Struggle
Alabama's biggest waste dump inflicts misery on residents of Uniontown, whose complaints to the EPA have gone unheeded.
Koch Industries Draws on Big Tobacco for New PR Hires
Who is in the PR stable the billionaire brothers have assembled?
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Pennsylvania Family Deals With Water Contamination Linked to Fracking Industry
The contamination of wells is not an anomaly. The Department of Environmental Protection identified 245 potentially contaminated sites between 2008 and 2014.
Climate Change and Hurricane Katrina: What Have We Learned?
Global warming is occurring far too fast for effective human adaptation.