Environment

If the NLRB fails to respond to the right-wing anti-union campaign in the Chattanooga VW plant elections, billionaires will be able to buy labor elections as well as political …

Dean Baker: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them …

President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.

As research confirms water contamination by hydraulic fracturing, an alarming amount of hazardous chemicals - including arsenic, chloride, barium and radium - are found in Pennsylvania groundwater.

The American Petroleum Institute and other groups have been directing state legislators to make statements in favor of the pipeline.

Pesticides are part of life in the California's Salinas Valley, “America's Salad Bowl.” But a growing body of research suggests their use is linked to various health problems.

John Wesley Powell and FDR warned about the California and Colorado Basin droughts and proposed ecological solutions that Congress ignored. We are beginning to reap the whirlwind.

Months after Freedom Industries spilled 10,000 gallons of toxic 4-methylcyclohexane methanol into the Elk River in West Virginia, many residents rely on volunteer efforts for safe drinking water.

The Green Army, a group representing environmental and social justice organizations, met on the steps of the state capitol for a rally preceding the start of Louisiana's legislative session …

What about the more general miracle of free-market capitalism? It exists only in the eyes of the beholder.