| Jan 23, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWe either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or we fry. That’s the conclusion of another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one from the National Academy of Sciences. Our fossil-fuel industrial economy, the study details, has made for the fastest...
| Jan 9, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWhile Americans were quietly preparing to ring in the New Year, the EPA gave families a deadly present to start the year off wrong. On December 28, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal that would effectively weaken the Mercury and Air Toxics...
| Nov 20, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyOne of the most important federal agencies on everything from climate to power use to property rights is one few Americans have heard of. While little-known, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has a huge impact on energy policy in the United States. It...
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| Sep 19, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedSeptember 11 is already an annual day of mourning. But while the nation grieved over victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan future generations may well grieve as a tragedy in its own...