Environment
The other shoe drops: Maryland sues EPA over air quality standards
September 29, 2017Having warned Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, more than two months ago that the state would go to federal court in Baltimore unless he started following the law – and having gotten no reply at...
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Irma pushes Florida’s poor closer to the edge of ruin
September 14, 2017For poor workers in Florida, the amusement parks of Orlando or Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach might as well be on Mars.
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A potential Irma victim’s last minute letter to Peoples World readers
September 8, 2017Bourgeois commentators, reporters, and government spokes-people serve some purpose when they disseminate useful information, but this crisis mode and referral to this hurricane intentionally misses a more vital discussion about why the nature affects varying populations...
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the storm of climate denial
September 8, 2017How many superstorms will it take before the climate deniers - congressional reps and Trump among them - realize the danger they pose?
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Fire or volcano? Ash from Oregon blaze compared to eruption
September 6, 2017People in Oregon covered their faces with scarves to keep wildfire ash from filling their lungs.
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