Environment
Trump’s wall: A death sentence for wildlife
January 14, 2019President Trump’s dream of a border wall is a nightmare for the U.S. Most agree it’s a dangerous idea rooted in xenophobia, but should it be built, endangered wildlife might be among its first casualties. It...
Read moreRoutine 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.
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