Environment

When New York police Commissioner Ray Kelly was shouted down at Brown University, were his free speech rights violated?

The Coast Guard is proposing to allow barges to transport large amounts of hazardous and radioactive wastewater from fracking operations on America's major rivers.

Can the United States, and the world for that matter, really afford to utilize natural gas as a ‘methadone’ to ween ourselves from a debilitating fossil fuel addiction?

More than 10,000 people are feared dead in the central Philippines following one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.

President Obama has been pushed to up the ante on the minimum wage by strong popular support across the country for increases.

Democracy Now! speaks with GMO label supporter David Bronner who spent $2.3 million on the

Bill Ayers' book demonstrates the potential of memoir to infuse politics with humanity, conflict with compassion, backlash with love. The book paints an intricate and humiliating picture of the …

California Governor Jerry Brown's legacy as a climate leader stands or falls on what he does next on fracking in the Golden State.

Why are we, as a species, marching toward disaster? The problem is that large corporations are destroying life on Earth.

Wages of production workers have outpaced those of their supervisors in this recovery.