health
Ebola fear, monitoring ease for some in Dallas
October 20, 2014Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral disease and are now in the clear.
Read moreNurses: Ebola threat requires emergency presidential action
October 16, 2014With concern escalating bout the threat of a wider Ebola outbreak, National Nurses United today called on Obama to "invoke his executive authority."
Read moreNurses say U.S. hospitals not ready to tackle Ebola
October 15, 2014As the Ebola crisis appears to grow more serious, some 4,000 nurses got on a national conference call sponsored by the NNU to discuss the response at their hospitals.
Read moreTeamsters’ teach-in spotlights environmental injustice at hazardous Missouri landfill
October 10, 2014The landfill contains 8,700 tons of un-containerized radioactive waste and there's a fire at the site.
Read moreClimate march underscores the high stakes of using palm oil
October 3, 2014Palm oil imports to the U.S. have increased 485 percent in the last decade, and companies producing palm oil are cutting away massive tracts of rainforest.
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