Good News: Less Coal Burned Leads to Decline in Mercury Contamination in Tuna
Levels of highly toxic mercury contamination in Atlantic bluefin tuna are rapidly declining, according to a new study. That trend does...
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New Opportunities for California’s Low-Income Households to Go Solar
Solar industry, renewable energy and environmental justice organizations and advocates applauded a decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission...
Wells Fargo Ordered To Pay $97 Million For Violating Labor Laws
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
Trump’s Environmental Policies Will Cost 80,000 American Lives And More That A Million Sick Kids
A letter released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives a preliminary accounting of Donald Trump’s environmental...
Entire Trump Family Named In Massive Charity Fraud Lawsuit
The entire Trump family has been named in a lawsuit regarding charitable fraud by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Pope Francis, Bill McKibben, & Poor People’s Campaign Address Climate Change
Writing in The Guardian this week, climate activist Bill McKibben suggests the world may miss its last realistic opportunity to...
Court Orders Maine’s Alt-Right Governor to Expand Medicaid
On Monday, a state judge ordered the Maine Department of Health and Gov. Paul LePage (R) to follow through on a...
North Carolina’s Public Employees Seek Raise Pointing to Last Year’s Success Raising State Minimum Wage
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Young People Are Leading a Growing Movement Against Low Pay
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
UN Report: Inequality in the United States Reaching Dangerous Levels Due to Trump’s Polices
Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections...
Corrupt EPA chief Scott Pruitt collaborated with climate change denial group, emails show
Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to...
Scott Pruitt doing the bidding of powerful lobbyists with EPA chemical safety rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to roll back an Obama-era rule meant to reduce the risks of chemical disasters...
Study Finds That Average CEO-To-Worker Pay Gap Has Now Reached 339 to 1
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
Scott Pruitt Caught Lying Again About His 24/7, 20-Man Security Team
The request for Scott Pruitt’s extraordinary level of security didn’t come from the inspector general, and wasn’t the result of...
Climate Science-Denying Trump Eliminates Carbon Monitoring System from NASA
Wise leaders facing a crisis want to suss out every bit of solid information they can about the parameters of...
Senate Report Finds Russia Used the Corrupt NRA to Help Elect Trump
The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at...
Adam Schiff Says Trump Broke The Law With $500 Million Illegal Chinese Kickback
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump committed a certain Emoluments Clause...
The Poor People’s campaign kicked off 40 days of nonviolent protest, reviving King’s anti-poverty efforts
Hundreds of low-wage workers, faith leaders, civil rights organizers and liberal activists were arrested in demonstrations in Washington and in...
Slumlord Sean Hannity Makes Money By Threatening To Evict Poor People
An analysis of Sean Hannity’s real estate holdings found that he used evictions and eviction threats against poor to generate...
Trump’s Drug Pricing Scam
Trump promised to rein in drug prices. It was his only sensible campaign promise. But the plan he announced Friday...
AT&T Paid Trump Fixer Michael Cohen For Advice On Its Proposed $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner
AT&T paid Trump fixer Michael Cohen $600,000 for advice on its multibillion-dollar proposed merger with Time Warner, the Washington Post...
Trump’s Billionaire Friend Carl Icahn Receives EPA Waiver Worth Tens of Millions
After reporting a net income of $234.4 million last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn—a former regulatory adviser to President Donald...
Vowing to End Corporate Bullying of Workers, Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Restore Union Power
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
American Traitor Oliver North Will Become the New NRA President
Oliver North, for you youthful types, was a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, a Reagan administration scheme to smuggle...
Alt-Right Maine Governor Paul LePage Sued Over Denying Medicaid
Maine is a very interesting state, politically. On the one hand they have perhaps the most right-wing governor in the...
HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s New Plan to Punish Poor People
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is proposing to increase rent for millions of low-income tenants in government-subsidized housing and impose stricter...
Republican Report May Provide Proof of Trump Treason
When Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, we learned more information...
Professed Christian Paul Ryan Fires House Chaplain For Praying About GOP Tax Bill
WASHINGTON ― House Chaplain Patrick Conroy was suddenly forced out of his job last week by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.),...
Trump’s Corrupt Consumer Protection Chief Admits He Only Meets With People Who Give Him Money
Mick Mulvaney, the man that Donald Trump personally picked to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, admitted to a room...
GOP Spends Big Money Trying To Sell Corporate Tax Cuts, But Poll Shows Most Americans Aren’t Buying
As right-wing advocacy groups embark on yet another campaign to sell the American public on the GOP’s corporate-friendly tax law...
United States Lags Behind Other Countries in Child Care and Maternity Leave
In most American families led by couples, both parents are in the workforce. At the same time, nearly 1 in 4 U.S. children...
New Jersey Enacts Automatic Voter Registration in Effort to Strengthen Democracy
Joining a promising pro-democracy wave, a signature from Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday added New Jersey to the ranks...
Colorado Communities Sue ExxonMobil & Suncor Oil For Climate Change Costs
A lawsuit filed in Colorado state court by the counties of Boulder and San Miguel and the city of Boulder...
Average American Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the...
Senator Bernie Sanders’ Bill Would Send Big Pharma Execs Behind Opioid Crisis to Jail
While President Donald Trump attempts to place blame for the enduring opioid addiction crisis on immigrants, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)...
Report: Trump businesses corral millions from political and taxpayer spending
Donald Trump’s US businesses have raked in $15.1m in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since he began his...
Death At Trump Tower Comes After Trump Fought Fire Safety Laws And Never Installed Sprinklers
President Donald Trump lobbied not to have sprinklers installed on the residential floors of his New York properties. After one...
Under Republican Tax Law — Richest One Percent Get Extra $33,000 Per Year — The Poor Get $40
In its first analysis of how the GOP tax plan will affect Americans’ personal income taxes alone, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center...
One of the Trump Swamp’s Biggest Swindlers, Scott Pruitt, Under Fire
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting pressure to resign amid ballooning scandals over his spending habits and a...
Saudi Crown Prince Visit to White House Tied to Unresolved 9/11 Questions
In light of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince Tuesday, it bears remembering that the Saudi royal...
Michigan Schools Save Money With Solar Projects
A Flushing, Michigan, school district will soon be part of a solar project that is forecast to save the community...
Robert Reich: As President’s go, we’ve had our share of crooks, bigots and incompetents, but never all three at once.
America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew...
Corrupt NRA Caught Taking Russian Cash
Responding to an inquiry from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the NRA admitted that they are taking foreign (read: Russian) money,...
Trump’s Erratic Behavior Rekindles Theories About Untreated Neurosyphilis
The cause of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior has been the subject of rampant speculation for years. Some have pointed to the hair-loss drug...
Elizabeth Warren Tells HUD Chief Ben Carson He Should Be Fired For Not Enforcing The Law
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tore into Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday, ripping the former neurosurgeon for...
Jared Kushner Made Millions By Breaking New York Housing Laws
The Associated Press reported that Jared Kushner’s real estate business in New York City was partially built on illegally kicking...
