Truthout
Environment & Health
As Trump Slashes EPA, Worry Over the Fate of an Agency Doing Similar Work
The work of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is at risk.
Zephyr Teachout: Supreme Court Pick Neil Gorsuch “Sides With Big Business, Big Donors and Big Bosses”
Confirmation hearings begin today for Neil Gorsuch.
Behind a Corporate Monster: How Monsanto Pushes Agricultural Domination
Its key aim in dealing with health and environmental issues is to protect sales and profits and the company image.
Trumpcare Is Very Destructive to Both Medicare and Medicaid
Republicans ran against the Affordable Care Act, but no one ran against Medicare and Medicaid, because the programs work very well and they're very popular.
To Stand With Palau, We Must Stand Against Capitalism
Perhaps the ocean, in its immensity and its intimacy, its vast and delicate diversity, can awaken us, when appeals to lower carbon emissions have not.
The Human Race Has Only 50 Years Left
The environmental crisis is likely to spur increasing conflict ending in nuclear war.
Novel Strategy for Dealing With Toxic Contamination: Do Nothing
At toxic cleanup sites across the country, environmental agencies have allowed groundwater contamination to go untreated and slowly diminish over time.
How Trump’s Environmental Agenda Will Exacerbate the Refugee Crisis
Trump has proven himself a direct adversary of climate refugees and their fight.
David Cay Johnston: How Trump Pays So Little in Taxes and Plans to Change Tax Law to Pay Even Less
The 2005 tax return shows Trump earned $153 million — or more than $400,000 a day.
Whose Commons? National Parks as White Public Space
US National Parks operate as white public space, upholding white supremacy and excluding people of color.