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Environment & Health

Trump Proposals Could Make Marketplace Coverage More Expensive, Less Accessible
The Trump Administration appears poised to propose, changes for the individual health insurance market.

For Endangered Species, the Road to Recovery Can Be Winding and Bumpy
preventing extinctions is a clear and concrete goal, but promoting recoveries is more ambiguous and abstract.

Anti-Trump Fervor Stokes Resistance to Louisiana’s Bayou Bridge Pipeline
Advocates of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline say it's part of Trump's America. Resisters are saying no to that vision.

Poisoning the Water Equals Cultural Death: Flint, Michigan, as Precursor to New Administration’s Environmental Policies
Watching the Flint water crisis unfold should have triggered a collective warning that more destruction would come.

The GOP Plan to Prevent a Repeat of Obama’s Climate Action
Congress is moving to get rid of a legal precedent that allowed the EPA to tackle climate change under President Obama.

“Made Me Feel We Were Back in 1950s” Coretta Scott King Memoirist on Silencing of Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was silenced and rebuked by the Senate.

Republicans Want to Let Fossil Fuel Companies Waste Taxpayers’ Natural Gas
The GOP is moving to axe rules designed to improve air quality and bring in millions of dollars in royalties.

Take Emergency Action in Solidarity With Standing Rock Today
The Indigenous Coalition of Standing Rock is calling on us to rally today in an international day of emergency actions.

California Regulators Allow Oil Companies to Continue Injecting Wastewater Into More Than 1,600 Wells in Protected Aquifers
Regulators announced in January that they plan to halt oil and gas wastewater injection in 475 oil wells in the Golden State.

Iranian Student Blocked From Entering US: Trump’s Remarks on Muslim Ban Remind Me of the Nazis
A federal appeals court will hear arguments today on whether to restore the Muslim ban.