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NAFTA impact: your Oreo cookies made in Mexico, not Chicago

September 9, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Starting soon, your Oreo cookies will be made in Mexico, not Chicago, and it's all thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A decade after Katrina: what we’ve learned and refuse to learn

August 27, 2015 By Special to People’s World

A decade later, the nation has made little progress in addressing the systemic problems Hurricane Katrina laid bare.

Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement: Potential damage to global public health

August 25, 2015 By Special to People’s World

"If the door starts to close on generic production of antiretrovirals, any hope of ending the global AIDS epidemic in our lifetime will quickly evaporate."

First tar sands mine to open for business in Utah

August 21, 2015 By Brady McCombs

"It's heartbreaking. It's impossible to reclaim and rehabilitate the land once they do what they are planning to do with it."

OSHA proposes cutting worker exposure to beryllium by 90 percent

August 19, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Beryllium is a heavy metal whose inhalation causes a chronic lung disease and may lead to lung cancer.