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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As the UN Finally Admits Role in Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Here Is How Victims Must Be Compensated
The UN has finally accepted some responsibility that it played a part in a cholera epidemic that broke out in Haiti in 2010.
The TPP and the Dire Threat to Affordable Drug Prices
Drug prices in the US are already approaching a crisis point for many patients unable to afford their prices, often despite being insured.
Corporate Conquistadors Violate Indigenous Lands and Bodies
Canada's National Inquiry into Murdered and Disappeared Indigenous Women ought to investigate the role of the extractive industry.
Tunisia: On the Front Lines of the Struggle Against Climate Change
Kerkennah islanders are faced with a double threat to their existence: rising sea water levels and the extractive operations of fossil fuel companies.
The West’s “New Normal”: Another Long Season of Volatile Wildfires
In California and across the region, drought and heat makes for big blazes.