Environment

Heavy fuel oil that spilled from a Kirby Inland Marine oil barge after it collided with a cargo ship on March 22, began washing up on Galveston Bay's shoreline …

Journalist Dahr Jamail discusses how the Iraqi city of Fallujah went from welcoming American intervention to fighting the US-backed Iraqi government.

The funeral industry is, by and large, a $20 billion for-profit enterprise, whose environmental impact has been greatly overlooked.

It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.

Disappearance is the most tortuous form of violence, because it lives on in our imaginations as a resilient psychosis of loss, says James Fennell.

Twenty Five years after the fact, Exxon has yet to pay Alaska the $92 million owed for damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. They privatized their profits and …

There's an important lesson to be learned from the ongoing coal ash disaster in North Carolina. When business and politics mix, the public pays the price, and more.

Sue Sturgis breaks down the numbers in the latest coal ash dumping incidents.

So many of the assertions made about “maximizing shareholder value” are false that they should be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.

The 42-year-old Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, only 35 miles from Boston, poses unacceptable threats to human and environmental safety.