Monthly Archive: January 2016
Canada’s International Trade Minister said Monday that Ottawa intends to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but that does not mean that the federal government will ratify the massive trade deal. In a statement, Chrystia Freeland...
Questions of accountability and long term effects loom over Flint water crisis Massive gas leak continues to spew methane into Southern California skies DOI to assess coal mining on federal lands for first time...
The federal government is reviewing a program that allows for the leasing of federal lands to coal companies. The Obama administration has announced a freeze on new applications for coal mining leases for the...
A public health crisis has been simmering in Flint, Michigan for nearly two years…and it’s finally boiled over. The governor has apologized and promised accountability, but it’s still unclear how much he knew and...
There’s no end in sight for what some environmental activists call the country’s biggest environmental catastrophe since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. A massive leak of methane gas from an underground...
This week marks the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, a case that codified a woman’s right to choose whether to carry a pregnancy to term or to have...
As many as 4,000 families in Zimbabwe are in limbo after facing down bulldozers during the holidays. At least 1000 others became homeless after officials ordered their houses demolished just before Christmas, the latest...
A prisoner exchange with Iran resulted in 11 people freed from prisons Saturday, seven Iranians from US prisons and four dual-citizens from Iranian detention. A twelfth person was also released, though separately from the...
Low-wage airport service workers in several U.S. cities commemorated Martin Luther King Day on Monday by staging protests against what they called gross injustice and wage inequality. Jim McElhatton reports from Washington, DC. Download...
UN aid workers confirm widespread starvation in three blockaded Syrian towns Turkish police arrest more than a dozen peace petition-signing academics Cologne assaults embolden far-right groups in Germany U.S. faith groups and some local...