Environment

Denver - Chemicals used to hydraulically fracture rocks in drilling for natural gas in a remote valley in central Wyoming are the likely cause of contaminated local water supplies, …

In an online post titled “Self-Serving Myths of Europe’s Neo-Calvinists,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an editor at the British newspaper The Telegraph, sends us to a very good essay from the …

A pro-choice rally. (Photo: Jon Chiang) Long before Merle Hoffman found her niche as a provider of reproductive health care, she sought to be extraordinary. The question …

Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, at a briefing at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington, on May 27, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharrett …

On Saturday, December 3rd – while most of the U.S. media was focused on the political demise of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and the growing financial meltdown in …

ThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created …

In what officials say is the largest ever settlement in a government investigation of a mine disaster, Alpha Natural Resources agreed to pay $209 million in restitution and civil …

Scarcely one-third of the U.S. population believes that there is a scientific consensus on the threat of global warming.

They called people “animals” and “savages.” One comment said, “Drop a bomb and wipe them all out.” Hearing New York police officers speak publicly but candidly about …