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Environment & Health
New Orleans Approves Natural Gas Power Plant Despite Environmental Racism and Climate Concerns
The city council recently approved construction of a $210 million natural gas power plant.
What Standing Rock Gave the World
Americans saw the Indigenous struggle that goes hand in hand with protecting the Earth.
Donald Trump Is Determined to Privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs
Privatizing the VA wouldn't just risk veteran's health care.
Appeals Court Reverses Decision Stopping Bayou Bridge Pipeline Work Through Cypress Swamp
Hopefully the pipeline can still be stopped.
Why Homelessness Is Harder for Women
Women who face the challenges of homelessness have to deal with additional factors.
Toward an Ecologically Based Post-Capitalism: Interview With Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Inequality is a primary driver of climate change.
“Real Organic” Label Bites Back at Industrial Agriculture
Small-scale farmers are proposing a solution in the form of the Real Organic Project.
Bottled Water, Brought to You by Fracking?
The link between fracking and the bottled water industry is one more reason to take back the tap.
The Sick Paying for the Healthy: How Insurance Companies Drive Up Drug Prices
Drug supply chain deals leave sick people in the dust.
Countless Archaeological Sites at Risk in Trump Oil and Gas Auction
The historical record of Native peoples who inhabited the outskirts of two national monuments is facing an unprecedented threat.