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Environment & Health
Health Care Isn’t a Bargaining Chip
Women should be free to make their own health decisions no matter what they earn or where they live.
Oil Spill Funds Race to Catch Up to Rise in Rail Transportation
Risks shift from coastal facilities and marine vessels to inland pipelines and railways.
Bianca Jagger | President Obama’s Gravest Error: Trusting Shell to Drill in the Arctic
President Obama's approval of Shell's Arctic oil drilling has tarnished his environmental legacy.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: We Are Running Out of Time to Save Our Oceans, and More
In today's On the News segment: Our oceans are in a dire state, and we don't have much time left to prevent more widespread destruction; the 62-year-old oil pipelines …
Direct Action Taken – and Needed – in the Lead-Up to Paris Climate Summit
This is direct action as it should be - an action which targets the very source of the problem and stops it in its tracks.
Forty Years After Vietnam, Blue Water Navy Vets Still Fighting for Agent Orange Compensation
The battle boils down to a comma.
A Worldwide Network of Seed Information Is Taking Root
Efforts to preserve and protect plant information are accelerating - but not without risks.
Lack of Regulation Blamed for Alarming Surge in Cancer Rate in Vietnam
Vietnam has a low survival rate for cancer sufferers even for a developing country.
El Niño – What It Will Bring This Year and How It Could Change With Global Warming
An El Nino is building that could possibly become a “mega” El Nino.
Bill McKibben on the University of California Divesting From Coal and Tar Sands
The university announced that it sold off more than $200 million worth of investments in coal and tar sands companies.