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Environment & Health
Gentrification Is a Feminist Issue: The Intersection of Class, Race, Gender and Housing
Having lower wages means that working-class women will be unable withstand the process of gentrification and remain in their homes and neighborhoods.
How to Grow More Food With Less Water
Scientists and farmers collaborate on a quest for more efficient irrigation.
Obama’s Heroin Strategy: Treating Addiction or Arming the Drug War?
Some reformers fear the White House's new plan for treating heroin addiction as a public health issue will actually fuel the failed war on drugs.
Shock Doctrine: A Look at the Mass Privatization of NOLA Schools in Storm’s Wake and Its Effects Today
Just two weeks after Hurricane Katrina, the city fired 7,500 public school teachers, launching a new push for charter schools.
Wine and Water Watch Challenges Invasive Wine Empire
The “Grape Rush” in Sonoma and Napa counties has made grapes an invasive species that threatens to consume water and land.
Big Oil Spent $6.2 Million Lobbying California Officials in Year’s First Six Months
Environmental politics has no bigger issue than than the capture of the regulatory apparatus by the regulated.
If You Are Poor, It’s Like the Hurricane Just Happened: Malik Rahim on Katrina Ten Years After
Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the city, Malik Rahim took Democracy Now! around the neighborhood of Algiers.
#ILookLikeASurgeon: Being Queer in Surgery
Being queer in surgery means living in a world that assumes I am straight, and coming out over and over again.
The Corporations Funding the Lawyers to Fight the Clean Power Plan
Lawyers from coal-dependent states, led by West Virginia, are challenging President Obama's Clean Power Plan.
Drought Relief Bill Threatens to Drown Sacred Sites of a Northern California Tribe
Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in California are bracing for one of their biggest environmental justice struggles yet.