| Jan 27, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis January, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society showing “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded” between 2016 and 2017. The society politely pointed out that the Trump administration had nothing to...
| May 9, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyThe media’s been swirling around the many scandals involving Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, and rightfully so. But there’s another scandalous member of Trump’s cabinet who’s bending ethical standards and attacking our environment: Interior...
| Feb 1, 2017 | Environment / HealthAs Donald Trump was sworn in, my inbox filled up with concerns about the future of the Environmental Protection Agency. Allegedly, scientists were being censored. References to climate change were being erased. But all that was just a warm-up act. Before we could...
| Mar 9, 2016 | Environment / HealthTeflon, you might have heard, may cause cancer. The culprit was a toxic, now retired compound called PFOA. Also known as C8, the chemical became the subject of a major lawsuit accusing DuPont — the manufacturer of the popular nonstick coating — of sickening thousands...
| Apr 8, 2015 | Economy / BusinessKentucky Senator Mitch McConnell recently took the extraordinary step of calling on governors to ignore Washington’s Clean Power Plan, an EPA mandate to curb carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. “Declining to go along with the administration’s legally...