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El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban Metals Mining
The move follows on the heels of similar bans enacted regionally in El Salvador.
This Invention Lets Rural Hondurans Clean Their Water — and Own the Treatment Plants
What's at stake in a world where science is marginalized? Programs like AguaClara, which offer sustainable, low-cost solutions to communities in need.
Indigenous and Environmental Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Keystone XL Permit
Opponents of fossil fuels are digging in for a long fight against Trump.
Bannon-Style “Administrative Deconstruction” of Obamacare Is Coming
Democrats accused Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price of planning to wreck Obamacare through executive inaction and austerity measures.
“It’s a Cover-Up, Not a Clean-Up”: Nuclear Waste Smolders in Sites Across the US
Increasing the nuclear arsenal will only add to the monumental legacy of toxic and radioactive waste across the US.
Trump and the GOP in Sickness and Ill Health
The Freedom Caucus gets in the way of the Republican health care bill, much to the president's dismay.
Trump’s Climate Order Isn’t the End of the Story: A Conversation With Climate Justice Activist Jordan Estevao
Climate justice work is “moving from protest to power and from resistance to revolution,” says strategist Jordan Estevao.
William Rivers Pitt | The AHCA: Mass Murder in Broad Daylight
Make no mistake about it: This was a mass murder bill, plain and simple.
As Trump Complains About Alleged Surveillance, Republicans Gut Internet Privacy Rules
Laura Moy, deputy director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center, discusses the recent gutting of internet privacy rules.
The March to “Brainwash Our Kids” With Science
In 2017, our scientific blunders on the most important public health issue of our time are again poised to lead to catastrophe, but the stakes are higher now.