Environment

Labor, environmental leaders challenge Fast Track trade deals

January 27, 2015 By Blake Skylar

During a teleconference hosted today by the BlueGreen Alliance, leaders got together to ask the necessary tough questions regarding the president's support of Fast Track.

Working Families Party says Cuomo must deliver more

January 26, 2015 By David Mirtz

The New York Working Families Party called on the state's governor and the state legislature to enact an agenda that puts "working families first."

The Jewish New Year for trees comes on Feb. 3 this year

January 22, 2015 By CPUSA Religion Commission

Ancient sages of the Jewish religion established a special new year for trees. Yes, trees!

Fukushima-type reactor in Vermont gets the axe, concerns remain

January 13, 2015 By Blake Skylar

A nuclear power plant near the town of Brattleboro is being shut down thanks to local environmental activism.

Nurses union cheers Obama Keystone veto threat

January 12, 2015 By PAI

Keystone foes say the pipeline would carry "dirty oil" to the U.S. Gulf Coast refineries at a cost of an unacceptable increase in the gases that cause global warming.