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Environment & Health
Alaska Issues Its First-Ever Heat Advisory
While the climate crisis is affecting temperatures everywhere, Alaska's temps are rising at twice the global average.
GOP Proposals for Tax Restrictions May Defund States’ Medicaid Programs
The loss of revenue could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
Youth Who Fought the Climate Crisis in Court Are Now Targeting Trump
Many of the young plaintiffs have taken part in similar lawsuits before, and won key victories in Montana and Hawaii.
Historic Black Community Takes On Elon Musk Over Environmental Racism
South Memphis residents are fighting back against unpermitted pollution from the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes On DOGE Amid Rising Cases of Black Lung Disease
Researchers working to prevent deaths from the disease, which has killed over 75,000 miners, received layoff notices.
RFK Jr. Poses a Threat to Vaccine Policy. Here’s How Doctors Are Preparing.
Physicians are taking joint actions and figuring out how to give patients reliable information amid the uncertainty.
The FDA Allowed Contaminated Factories to Send Drugs to the US
Medications that otherwise would’ve been banned went to unsuspecting patients across the US, including some with cancer.
Former CDC Board Members Say RFK Jr. Has “Critically Weakened” Vaccine Program
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions at the CDC “put U.S. families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses,” they say.
Senate GOP Budget Draft Proposes Even Bigger Cuts to Medicaid Funding
The Senate Finance Committee text goes even further than the House version in its attacks on the program.
New Rules Let Veterans Affairs Doctors Refuse to Treat Democrats, Unmarried Vets
Doctors can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on marital status, party affiliation, or union activity.