Environment & Health

The New Economy Coalition hosted events focused on building sustainable solutions to inequality and climate change.

New Brunswick Mounted Police deploy rubber bullets and tear gas, arrest 40 protesters for blockading highway.

Recent claims that fossil fuels have been discovered in abundance means bad news for the planet at we abandon research on alternative energy methods.

Kate Sheppard: One of the many programs crippled during government shutdown has been the EPA's cleanup of highly polluted superfund sites.

Political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann tell Bill that Congress' failure to make progress on gun control last week is symptomatic of a legislative branch reduced to dysfunction, …

In a major new report, the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations details a global crackdown on peaceful protests through excessive police force and the criminalization of dissent.

Dual outbreaks of salmonella and non-viral hepatitis have sickened hundreds and left one person dead.

In today's On the News segment: Today, Republicans in both the House and Senate met to consider a temporary increase in the debt ceiling; our nation is starting to …

An environmental group plans to take legal action if federal agencies fail to halt offshore fracking in California's Santa Barbara Channel.

On Tuesday, President Obama spoke at length about the looming debt limit deadline and the ongoing government shutdown, and more.