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Environment & Health
Oil Industry Aimed to Set Agenda During UN Climate Summit
The meeting was condemned by grassroots environmental activists.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Promises City Is Working on Solution to Water Crisis
Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, spiking even higher in 2019.
Ohio Firefighters Kept in the Dark on Drilling and Fracking Chemicals
The secrecy prevents first responders from preparing for incidents involving chemical fires, spills or releases.
Sea Levels Are Rising, and So Are We
The current youth-led climate crisis movement is not going away anytime soon.
There Is No Economic Justification for Drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
The benefits, including job creation, would be trivial, while the environmental impact would be devastating.
Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal
The largest city in Michigan exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.
We Can Save the Planet by Defunding the Pentagon
Billions of Pentagon dollars could be freed for critical climate projects while ending the environmental havoc of war.
No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care
Employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
Big Pharma Invests Millions as Congress Prepares Drug Pricing Bills
Pharmaceutical companies are writing large checks to key lawmakers and spending millions on ad buying and lobbying.
Bolivian President Evo Morales’s Ecocide Is a Genocide
These are not wildfires; they are criminally man-made fires that have been started to turn forest into pasture.