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Environment
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NAFTA Renegotiation Offers Opportunity to Curtail Corporate Power
How likely is Trump to renegotiate the NAFTA clause that gives his corporate friends power over governments?
Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple, but H&R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It
The makers online systems spent millions lobbying to permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled filings.
Seven Things That Need to Happen to Keep Global Temperature Rise Below 2C
A new report by IEA and IRENA is the latest attempt to address the question of global temperatures.
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Arkansas Is Trying Again to Prevent Whistleblowers From Exposing Cruelty to Animals
Dangerous “ag gag” bills, aim to criminalize whistleblowers and have been controversial for years.
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Climate Change Is Making Kenya’s Droughts More Severe
Kenya's current severe drought, exacerbated by the recent La Nina, has left over two million people in Kenya without enough to eat.
Zephyr Teachout: Supreme Court Pick Neil Gorsuch “Sides With Big Business, Big Donors and Big Bosses”
Confirmation hearings begin today for Neil Gorsuch.
Monsanto Isn’t Feeding the World — It’s Killing Our Children
Two new reports published in recent weeks add to the already large and convincing body of evidence that agricultural pesticides are poisoning us.
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Congress Approves Drug Test Measure That Vilifies Unemployed Workers
Congress has voted to jettison Labor Department regulations that limit who can be drug-tested before collecting unemployment benefits from state governments.
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Dahr Jamail | Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans
The Navy doesn't keep records of toxins released so it can conclude that its activities have no environmental impacts.
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The GOP Health Bill Is an Attack on People of Color
The health care overhaul will cut programs that help Black and Brown people, while providing tax cuts for the wealthy that would disproportionately help whites.