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Feminism Must Be Intersectional: Putting Child Care on the Agenda
To move forward the reproductive rights movement must embrace a broader feminist agenda that includes child care.
Novel Strategy for Dealing With Toxic Contamination: Do Nothing
At toxic cleanup sites across the country, environmental agencies have allowed groundwater contamination to go untreated and slowly diminish over time.
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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.
Scott Pruitt’s First Big Test at EPA: Flint-Style Lead Contamination in Indiana
Will Scott Pruitt keep the promise he made after the emergence of the crisis in Flint, Michigan?
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DuPont and Chemours Settle Teflon Toxin Lawsuit for Up to $921 Million
Over a span of decades, hundreds of thousands of pounds of C-8 was dumped by DuPont into the Ohio River.
Argentina’s Never-Ending Environmental Disaster
Is it possible to spend 5.2 billion dollars to clean up a river and get practically no results? Argentina is showing that it is.
In California’s Imperial Valley, Residents Aren’t Waiting for Government to Track Pollution
For marginalized communities along the California-Mexico border, projects to gather and share scientific reports are crucial to holding agencies accountable.
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“Extraordinary” Levels of Pollution Found in the Deepest Part of the Sea
Human-made pollutants have reached the depths of two of the world's deepest ocean trenches.
Poisoning the Water Equals Cultural Death: Flint, Michigan, as Precursor to New Administration’s Environmental Policies
Watching the Flint water crisis unfold should have triggered a collective warning that more destruction would come.
Trump’s Plan to Crush the EPA Is a Symptom of a Bigger Problem
Regulations don't kill jobs, fossil fuel barons do — when mandatory pollution controls cut into their bottom lines.