How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central American Communities Uninhabitable
Companies are selling more cheap, disposable plastic products to developing countries like Guatemala. That trash is ruining rivers and the sea.
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Will Bernie Sanders Stick With a Carbon Tax In His Push For a Green New Deal?
Sanders is a longtime proponent of taxing the country’s worst polluters, but he’s said very little about a carbon tax on the 2020 campaign trail.
The NSA's Role in a Climate-Changed World: Spying on Nonprofits, Fishing Boats, and the North Pole
New documents show how U.S. spies gathered intelligence related to environmental conflicts, disasters, and resources
“Save Our Tips," the Campaign Against D.C.'s Minimum Wage Hike, Is Run by a Trump Consultant
By cloaking its opposition to the wage increase in lefty rhetoric, “Save Our Tips” hopes it can trick D.C. voters into taking down a progressive policy.
Ethiopia Touts Good Conditions in Factories for Brands Like H&M and Calvin Klein, but Workers Scrape By on $1 a Day
In a notoriously exploitative industry, factories in Ethiopia pay some of the lowest wages of any garment factories in the world.
Democrats Have Given Up on Private Health Care Markets — and for Good Reason
Republicans have sabotaged every effort by Democrats to make private health insurance markets work, so now they’re turning to public ones.
How Self-Appointed Guardians of "Sound Science" Tip the Scales Toward Industry
Sense About Science purports to help the misinformed public sift through alarmist claims about health and the environment. But it has a disturbing history of promoting experts who turn out to have ties to regulated industries.