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California Schools Urged to Create Heat Plans on a Warming Planet
A new policy brief offers a series of recommendations on how schools become more heat-resilient.
Big Pharma’s Opioid Settlement Payouts to Localities Made Public
The national opioid settlements are the second-largest public health settlement of all time.
Let’s Accept Climate Science — and Also Reimagine Our Relationship to the Earth
Desperate measures are needed to mitigate the climate crisis, but they can be filled with joy and imagination.
More Than 1.2M Patients Have Been Booted Off Medicaid. Most Are Still Eligible.
An estimated 76 percent of those disenrolled were kicked off for “procedural reasons” like completing paperwork late.
Nearly 6 in 10 People With Health Insurance Have Had Coverage Issue in Past Year
The American health insurance system leaves both uninsured and insured people to languish, polling suggests.
Coalition Announces Global Mobilization Amid Inaction in Latest Climate Talks
Activists are demanding an end to fossil fuels and holding polluters accountable for damage they’ve already caused.
House GOP Majority Has Been Shoving Big Oil Favors Into Nearly Every Major Bill
From the debt ceiling to their latest tax plan, the GOP has been taking pot shots at the climate movement at every turn.
Shell Scraps Plans to Cut Oil Production, Raises Payouts to Wealthy Shareholders
This comes after the oil giant tacitly admitted that limiting warming requires an “immediate end to fossil fuel growth.”
A New Report Shows How Big Pharma Is Price Gouging Cancer Patients
Many with cancer in the U.S. may soon see long-overdue relief thanks to provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Dead Fish, Flesh-Eating Bacteria at the Beach Are Warnings From a Warming Ocean
As dead fish wash up in Texas, a massive “belt” of seaweed stretching across the Atlantic closes beaches in Florida.