News | Environment & Health Asbestos Ban Receives Renewed Push Following Chlorine Plant Investigation A recent report by ProPublica has renewed calls to ban the importing and use of the potent carcinogen in the U.S. By Neil Bedi & Kathleen McGrory , ProPublica October 27, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health We Must Shut Down Factory Farms to Protect Clean Water and Environmental Justice The overwhelming majority of U.S. food systems are dominated by a handful of corporations that pollute our communities. By Gloria Reuben , Truthout October 19, 2022 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health COVID Has Become Indefinite. We Need New Practices to Keep Each Other Safe. Some community organizers are using consent-based practices to build a safer world as the state abandons public health. By Meghan Krausch , Truthout October 18, 2022 Truthout
Review | Environment & Health Nuclear Power Isn’t Clean — It Creates Hellish Wastelands of Radioactive Sewage Nuclear power carries with it an unbearable price tag: nightmarish contamination and the threat to survival itself. By Harvey Wasserman , Truthout October 12, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor US Is Overcome With Debt and Death. Let’s Fight Inequality to Stop This Crisis. It is not debt cancellation that the nation can’t afford -- it is widening inequality that is too costly. By Liz Theoharis , Truthout October 9, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health This CDC Scientist Couldn’t Access Monkeypox Treatment. Why? It took three doctor visits -- and a desperate call to a colleague -- for a Black scientist to get treatment. By Anna Maria Barry-Jester , ProPublica October 5, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Underfunding Public Health Is a Decision to Let People Die in the Next Pandemic Our public health system is chronically underfunded, understaffed and in some sites being stripped of its legal powers. By Donald S. Bourne , Truthout September 17, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Judge Said Religious Employers Can Deny Preventive Care — a Dizzying Precedent Today’s hearing will clarify the ruling letting employers off the hook for preventive care they associate with “sin.” By Sasha Abramsky , Truthout September 16, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health When We Rose to Fight COVID, We Were Deliberately Turned Against Each Other There was a time when we came together to fight COVID, but that energy threatened the status quo more than the virus. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout August 29, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Climate Crisis Is Killing Off Key Insects and Spreading Insect-Borne Diseases Although climate change is undoubtedly bad news for many insects, some that spread disease are thriving. By Dave Goulson , Truthout August 25, 2022 Truthout