Environment

A recent fire and radiation release at a uranium repository in New Mexico has brought renewed focus on what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive waste.

Disappearance is the most tortuous form of violence, because it lives on in our imaginations as a resilient psychosis of loss, says James Fennell.

Twenty Five years after the fact, Exxon has yet to pay Alaska the $92 million owed for damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. They privatized their profits and …

There's an important lesson to be learned from the ongoing coal ash disaster in North Carolina. When business and politics mix, the public pays the price, and more.

Sue Sturgis breaks down the numbers in the latest coal ash dumping incidents.

The 42-year-old Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, only 35 miles from Boston, poses unacceptable threats to human and environmental safety.

The New York State Senate has rejected a bill that would have provided tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant college students.

What's rent got to do with climate change? More than you might think.

Burt Wides, a former chief investigator for the Church Committee, who helped create the Senate and House intelligence committees, says these oversight bodies are now too entwined with the …

Hundreds of indigenous people from California and across the country gathered with a crowd of over 4000 activists at the State Capitol in Sacramento on March 15 to send …