| Mar 26, 2014 | Environment / HealthRoyal Dutch Shell buried a bombshell in its recently released 2013 annual report. Amid 200 pages of predictably and mind-numbingly dry text, the world’s seventh-largest oil company foreshadowed something big. Here are the exact words, which Shell buried in the...
| Mar 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthFor me, the fact that Republicans keep using the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – as a political football is a tragedy. Sure, the law has problems, but it is already saving lives and improving the health of millions of Americans. Thankfully, it seems that Republicans...
| | Environment / HealthThere are more than 1,000 chemicals known to be toxic to the brains of animals in lab experiments. Yet we only know of 214 for humans, and just 12 for developing fetuses and infants, a recent study revealed. Why are these numbers so far apart? Is it because lab...
| | Environment / HealthRex Tillerson is mad. Fracking mad. The 61-year old farmer from Bartonville, Texas is another victim of the fracking boom that has invaded people’s homes and lives nationwide, from upstate New York to Southern California. Millions of Americans have experienced...
| | Environment / HealthIt’s hard not to love mediocre, bad, or even awful movies that portray a post-apocalyptic or utterly dysfunctional future. If you’ve watched Logan’s Run, Water World, The Day After Tomorrow, AI, or Soylent Green more than once, you’ll know what...
| Mar 18, 2014 | Environment / HealthHow bad will it get? The public approval rating for Congress has sunk to 9 percent, the lowest level since Gallup began to ask us about it. But your lawmakers are bound to get even more unpopular. Willing legislators have begun a scandalous relationship with corporate...