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Environment
Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple, but H&R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It
The makers online systems spent millions lobbying to permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled filings.
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Arkansas Is Trying Again to Prevent Whistleblowers From Exposing Cruelty to Animals
Dangerous “ag gag” bills, aim to criminalize whistleblowers and have been controversial for years.
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While One Louisiana Town’s Lead-Tainted Water System Is Replaced, Dozens of Others Deteriorate
“No one in America should have to live that way.”
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Climate Change Is Making Kenya’s Droughts More Severe
Kenya's current severe drought, exacerbated by the recent La Nina, has left over two million people in Kenya without enough to eat.
Zephyr Teachout: Supreme Court Pick Neil Gorsuch “Sides With Big Business, Big Donors and Big Bosses”
Confirmation hearings begin today for Neil Gorsuch.
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A Call to Recognize the US’s Women Human Rights Defenders
While the US has branded itself as a model of human rights, it has been criticized for dropping the ball on advancing women's rights at home and overseas.
Monsanto Isn’t Feeding the World — It’s Killing Our Children
Two new reports published in recent weeks add to the already large and convincing body of evidence that agricultural pesticides are poisoning us.
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Congress Approves Drug Test Measure That Vilifies Unemployed Workers
Congress has voted to jettison Labor Department regulations that limit who can be drug-tested before collecting unemployment benefits from state governments.
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Dahr Jamail | Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans
The Navy doesn't keep records of toxins released so it can conclude that its activities have no environmental impacts.
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Indigenous Leaders Denounce Ecuadorian Government Over Mining Conflicts
Indigenous activists denounce the government's complicity in allowing mining companies into indigenous territory.