Environment
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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For this worker, Indian Point nuclear leak was no surprise
February 23, 2016As an ironworker you can end up working in some interesting places; Indian Point nuclear plant, about an hour north of New York City along the Hudson River, was one of them.
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A crucial tipping point for the environment
February 18, 2016Many climate studies discuss the tipping points for hospitable human life on earth, sometimes referred to as planetary boundaries.
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