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Trump Spreads Alarm About Green New Deal: “They Want to Kill Our Cows”
Trump is making ludicrous claims to stoke panic about the Green New Deal, which would support local-scale agriculture.
Permafrost Is Already Thawing. Will It Tip the Scales in the Climate Crisis?
Across the northern hemisphere’s higher reaches, thawing permafrost could release billions of tons of carbon.
The Trump Administration Is Cutting Back Protections for Migratory Birds
The administration's proposed regulation is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years.
Insurers Are Bankrupting Patients by Charging Unexpectedly for Preapproved Care
When insurers revoke their decision to pay after a service is completed, patients are legally on the hook for the bill.
Wildfires Threaten North American Water Supplies
Polluted water creates many expensive, difficult and long-lasting challenges for drinking water treatment.
Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Deaths Every Year
Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded the study published this weekend in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet.
Climate Change Driving “Rapid and Widespread” Decline of Bumblebees
Bumblebees also face threats from habitat loss and exposure to pesticides. Rapid warming could be “the final straw."
Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government
President Giammattei has already declared martial law in two municipalities opposed to resource extraction.
The Wet’suwet’en Fight Against New Pipeline Spreads Across Canada
Protests have broken out across Canada in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders.
Ohio Anti-Protest Bill Could Criminalize Support for Pipeline Demonstrations
A federal judge ruled against similar language in a South Dakota law last year that was deemed impermissibly vague.