Environment
Routine FDA food inspections suspended by shutdown
January 11, 2019Americans only just survived the great romaine lettuce scare of 2018, and now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has postponed routine domestic food safety inspections.
Read moreGovernment shut down, but oil development mostly open for business
January 10, 2019“The oil industry is still getting business as usual and everybody else is getting shut out, so it’s fundamentally not fair."
Read moreBrazil’s Bolsonaro signs order endangering Amazon and indigenous rights
January 7, 2019"There's fear, there's pain. This feels like defeat, failure."
Read moreCreate jobs while saving the world with a Green New Deal
January 3, 2019The basic idea is to get us to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035 by putting Americans to work building a new energy infrastructure.
Read moreWillowbrook, Ill. residents call for closure of polluting Sterigenics plant
December 21, 2018There have been issues with the plant for several decades, but it was only recently discovered that the Illinois EPA had prior knowledge of the matter.
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