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."
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."
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."
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."
by Sam Pizzigati The U.S. contribution to the global concentration of wealth, the Pandora Papers help us understand, has become frighteningly enormous.
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.
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.
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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