Alabama Town Charges Black Moms and Disabled Over Unpaid Garbage Fees
"An analysis of court records shows more than 180 citizens have faced criminal charges due to Chickasaw’s garbage policy. Experts fear the practice may not be isolated."
"An analysis of court records shows more than 180 citizens have faced criminal charges due to Chickasaw’s garbage policy. Experts fear the practice may not be isolated."
"An estimated 189 compounds linked to breast cancer are found in food packaging and tableware, according to a new study."
Biodiversity loss can seem like a remote and abstract problem that pales in comparison to climate worries. But award-winning author David Quammen sees them as coequal threats, along with emerging diseases, and encourages journalists to illuminate the relationships between them. His advice includes getting out of big cities to see the extinction crisis firsthand and weaving humor and hope into your writing.
"Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr., a lineman who played for a top Mississippi high school, had collapsed on the field during an August 2022 practice."
"The bare hot asphalt schoolyard of the American past is getting a redo." "Schools across the country are adding trees, tent-like structures and water to their playgrounds as temperatures soar."
"A destructive cocktail of herbicides, including a key compound in the lethal defoliant Agent Orange, is being used to chemically deforest huge areas of Brazil as ranchers there seek new, less detectable ways to clear forests for grazing cattle."
"Flooding events around the world share a common factor of an atmosphere made warmer by climate change. What can be done to help citizens prepare?"
"How schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations."
"For the third time in two decades the Environmental Protection Agency appeared in federal Appellate Court this week to defend its admittedly flawed approach to regulating the billions of pounds of manure running off into the nation’s waters from large industrial animal feeding operations."
"For at least 15 years, a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been sending a pollutant that causes bladder cancer into the air at levels 1,000 percent higher than what state regulators now consider safe for the public to breathe, documents show."