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AOC Warns Pelosi and Schumer: 'We Can't Negotiate Reconciliation Bill Down to Nothing'
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by Jake Johnson
"The Build Back Better reconciliation package is a once-in-a-generation
opportunity to build a sustainable and prosperous future for our
country."
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Doctor Who Revealed Flint Lead Crisis Calls Benton Harbor Emergency More 'Environmental Injustice'
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by Brett Wilkins
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha says the Michigan city's water crisis is another
example of "how a predominantly poor and minority population
disproportionately suffers the burden of environmental contamination."
Bolsonaro Accused of Crimes Against Humanity at ICC Over Amazon Destruction
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by Julia Conley
"Crimes against nature are crimes against humanity."
In 2021, US on Pace for Most Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Since Records Began
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by Kenny Stancil
"What we are seeing now with these increasing disasters is with just one
degree of warming on our planet," said one scientist. "We have to choose
now between bad or terrible outcomes."
'Therapeutics Nationalism'? Poor at Risk of Being Left Behind as Rich Buy Up New Covid Drug
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by Jake Johnson
"The U.S. government should challenge Merck to license molnupiravir more
broadly."
Protest at US Embassy in South Africa Demands Biden 'Walk the Talk' on Vaccine Patent Waiver
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by Jake Johnson
"The U.S. made a big, bold decision to support this groundbreaking TRIPS
waiver, but is now largely absent from the global effort to make it a
reality."
155 More Arrested for 'People Vs. Fossil Fuels' Protest at White House
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by Jessica Corbett
"We're coming every day of this week to tell Biden: Stop this madness."
Sanders, Jayapal Say Medicare Expansion in Reconciliation Package 'Not Negotiable'
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by Brett Wilkins
"This is what the American people want," the socialist senator from
Vermont insisted.
Nearly 42,000 Sources of Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' Put US Drinking Water at Risk: Study
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by Kenny Stancil
"It is critical that the EPA start regulating PFAS—now," said one
scientist.
Amid Corporate Dems' Threats, New Poll Shows 83% of Voters Back Drug Pricing Reform
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by Julia Conley
"The Democrats must stand with the people," said Sen. Bernie Sanders,
"not fold."
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The Media Keeps Getting It Wrong: The Democrats Are Not Divided
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by Peter Dreier
Just a few members out of the hundreds of Democrats elected to the House
and Senate are stalling the President's agenda.
The US Has Become a Tax Haven for the Vile and the Vicious
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by Sam Pizzigati
The U.S. contribution to the global concentration of wealth, the Pandora
Papers help us understand, has become frighteningly enormous.
Life in the Post-9/11 Military: A Navy Wife's Perspective
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by Andrea Mazzarino
Over the last decade, I've felt as if the tiny community of
discontented, activist-minded spouses I've associated with and the
mob-like structures of the military conformists who eternally try to
rope us in or dismiss us seemed to recreate post-9/11 America in a
microcosm.
The United States Must Rejoin the Global Biodiversity Conservation Community
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by Subhankar Banerjee
In recent decades, the U.S. federal government, growing more and more
isolationist, has abandoned its role in global conservation of
biodiversity.
FEMA Ignores Puerto Rico's Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance to Build a Clean Energy Grid
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by Patrick Parenteau, Rachel Stevens
FEMA plans to spend $9.4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure instead.
Our Health Depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants That Are Rapidly Being Destroyed
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by John Buell
The decline is one of the effects of the industrial modernization that
is supposed to have brought increasing comfort, health, and advanced
knowledge into our lives.
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Newswire...
Sunrise Movement Members Travel Thousands of Miles to Talk to Sinema at the Boston Marathon, Demanding the full $3.5T Climate and Jobs Package
Sunrise Movement
New Analysis Details Immense Scale of Corporate Water Abuses in California
Food & Water Watch
EWG Study: Almost 42,000 Sources of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Could Be Polluting Surface or Drinking Water Across the U.S.
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
As Congress Holds the Line on Build Back Better, People’s Action Celebrates Corporate Pushback Week of Action
People's Action
Google and Amazon Workers Publish Historic Joint Letter Demanding End to Contract With Israeli Military
Fight for the Future
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