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Environment & Health

How Trump’s Medicaid Restrictions Will Stop People From Voting
Adding stipulations to Medicaid will create opportunities for racial inequity.

Caribbean Residents See Climate Change as a Severe Threat but Most Americans Don’t — Here’s Why
Why the difference of opinion?

Will New Jersey’s New Governor Stop the PennEast Pipeline?
What happens in New Jersey will decide the pipeline's fate.

The Precautionary Principle Asks “How Much Harm Is Avoidable?” Rather Than “How Much Harm Is Acceptable?”
“Acceptable harm” has brought us to the brink of disaster.

We Are Drowning in Plastic, and Fracking Companies Are Profiting
Fracking is fueling this plastics binge.

Fourteen Environmental Programs Eliminated in Trump’s Budget Proposal
The impact of proposed budget cuts on the EPA will be dramatic.

As Deadly Flu Sweeps Country, Koch-Backed Group Fights Paid Sick Leave Policies Nationwide
Gregorio Casar discusses more.

Dahr Jamail | Study: “Amplified Warming” Has Ended the Era of Stable Climate
Trumpian denial could make Earth 7 degrees Celsius warmer by 2100.

How Donald Trump Plans to Enlist Fossil Fuels in the Struggle for Global Dominance
A strategy of maximal extraction.

The US Dumps Its Fracking Waste in My Ohio Town
My county is poor and remote. Fracking companies think they can abuse it.