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Environment & Health
Let’s Demand the CDC Do More to Address Lead Poisoning and Lyme Disease
Like the water contamination crisis in the US, Lyme disease deserves attention from the CDC and presidential candidates.
Cancun Residents Halt Developers to Protect and Revive Beloved Mangrove
The residents of Cancun moved to protect what was left of their forest after bulldozers destroyed it.
TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Resumes Operations After South Dakota Dilbit Spill
TransCanada received permission from federal regulators to restart the pipeline after a 16,800-gallon spill.
Dark Money and Lobbyists Serving as Superdelegates Could Decide the 2016 Race
In a close race, superdelegates could determine the Democratic Party's nominee.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: It’s Time to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies, and More
In today's On the News segment: If we want renewable energy to flourish in the US, we need to end the massive subsidies to the fossil fuel industry; climate …
Monsanto’s Evil Twin: Disturbing Facts About the Fertilizer Industry
What do you know about the worldwide chemical fertilizer industry? If you're like most people, not much.
Nuclear Nonproliferation Deals and Environmental Injustice in the South
Radioactive material from a Japanese research project will be sent to the South Carolina coast.
Women’s Health Issues Linked to Insecticide Exposure, Too
If you can't get worked up over the well-being of bees, maybe you'll be moved for the sake of women's health instead.
Drunk US Marine’s Dump of Toxic Foam Among Accidents Polluting Okinawa Water Supply
Internal reports expose a spate of accidents at Kadena Air Base over 15 years which have leaked at least 21,000 liters of fire extinguishing agents.
Energy Department Seeks Public Process for Nuclear Waste Storage
Illinois has the most reactors and waste sites of any state, with the decommissioning Zion reactor and six operating plants.