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Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Sue Chemical Plant for Nearly 50 Years of Air Pollution
Thirteen plaintiffs are suing the companies responsible for the chloroprene emissions fouling the air in “Cancer Alley.”
Now That Skinny Repeal Has Been Squashed, What’s Next for Health Care Activists?
Now that we have the lived experience of collective power, we can take this momentum and move forward, says Mari Cordes.
The US’s Carbon-Pusher-in-Chief: Trump’s Fossil-Fueled Foreign Policy
It's time to give Trump's snake-oil-style energy salesmanship the attention it deserves.
Climate Refugees in Toxic Immigrant Jails Are Victims of Environmental Racism
An immigrant jail in Tacoma, Washington, is in an area so polluted it was designated unfit for residences.
The Office of Environmental Justice Is on the Chopping Block — Can Democrats Save It?
Trump has threatened the EPA, and the Office of Environmental Justice is next.
How Biohackers at Counter Culture Labs Are Trying to Make Insulin More Affordable
“A significant number of the people who supported us have been people with diabetes who couldn't afford their own insulin.”
Transcript From Secret Meeting Illustrates EPA Collusion With the Chemical Industry
The Poison Papers represent a vast trove of rediscovered chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back to the 1920s.
How Civil Disobedience Helped Kill Trumpcare — at Least for Now
The tireless activists who have been engaging in direct action deserve credit for killing the latest round of Trumpcare.
In Dangerous Move, Republicans Push to Strip Health Care From Millions Without Holding Any Hearings
Joshua Green of Bloomberg Businessweek discusses the latest developments in the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs From the Inside
Packing a regulatory agency with conflicted individuals is one way to ensure speedy GMO approvals.