Environment
East Oaklanders present new vision for fair development
March 14, 2016Area residents have demanded that affordable housing, a clean and healthy environment, and good union jobs for current residents be written into any development plan for the area.
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Climate change: Learning from the past
March 10, 2016We ignore the interwoven connection between population growth and climate change at our own peril.
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Berta Cáceres, Indigenous environmental leader, murdered in Honduras
March 8, 2016At least two men in ski masks fractured her arm and leg, and then shot her at least eight times, killing her.
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Lead in Flint water, mold in Detroit schools
March 4, 2016The catastrophic levels of pollution and destruction are a direct result of extreme right-wing policies.
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LA gas leak among worst ever – could new regulations help?
March 1, 2016The leak was halted on February 18, but not before ravaging the atmosphere with roughly 100,000 tons of methane, leaving a carbon footprint larger than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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