Op-Ed | Environment & Health Would Single-Payer National Health Insurance Break the Bank? We have to face some inconvenient facts about our health care system, six years after enactment of the Affordable Care Act. By John Geyman , Speakout August 30, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Cuomo’s Flint Legislative hearings have begun about the water crisis in Hoosick Falls, New York, and many people have been dropping the F word: Flint. By Bill Kitchen , Speakout August 30, 2016 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Ohio Residents Clash With State and County Government in Fight to Ban Fracking Via the Ballot For years, local Ohioans have been told by courts and elected officials that they have no control over fracking. By Simon Davis-Cohen , DeSmogBlog August 28, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health India’s First Fully Organic State Faces Many Challenges to Maintaining Its Status It's too early to hail Sikkim's transition to chemicals-free agriculture an outright success, say observers. By Athar Parvaiz , EarthIslandJournal August 27, 2016 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Exposure on Tap: Drinking Water as an Overlooked Source of Lead Unlike most water contaminants, lead gets into water after it leaves a water treatment plant. By Rebecca Renner , EnvironmentalHealthPerspectives August 27, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health We Can Have a Healthy Climate With Zero Warming in Our Lifetimes A healthy climate is achievable in our lifetimes with atmospheric carbon removal, and we have the technology to do it. By Bruce Melton , Truthout August 27, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health EPA’s Inaction Made Way for Lead Poisoning in Children, Lawsuit Claims Seven years after promising new standards for assessing lead dust dangers, the federal government hasn't delivered. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout August 26, 2016 Truthout
News | Environment & Health NASA Study Confirms Methane Pollution From Oil and Gas Last week, NASA released a follow-up study on its 2014 report that exposed a huge methane hotspot looming over the Four Corners. By Pete Dronkers , AlbuquerqueJournal August 26, 2016 Truthout
Photo Essay | Environment & Health Flood-Ravaged Gulf Coast Residents Ask President Obama to Cancel Federal Offshore Drilling Lease Auction Activists delivered a petition protesting the leasing of more of the Gulf of Mexico for oll and gas drilling. By Julie Dermansky , DeSmogBlog August 25, 2016 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Day After Obama Tours Louisiana Flood Damage, Government Holds Massive Gulf Oil and Gas Lease Auction Four environmental activists were arrested in New Orleans protesting a lease sale of up to 24 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas development. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 24, 2016 Truthout