Legislatures in states with ongoing – or planned – pipeline projects are moving to increase penalties for certain types of protests aimed at opposing pipelines. The governor of South Dakota signed a bill into...
The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed position on another major civil rights issue. The DOJ backed away from its years-long claim that the GOP-led Texas legislature intended to disenfranchise poor and minority voters...
In the recent wave of coal company bankruptcies, CEOs have been awarded multi-million dollar bonuses, while at the same time the companies are seeking release from their decades-old obligation to cover lifetime health benefits...
In West Virginia’s coal country, a wellspring of citizen opposition to a mountaintop removal mine has caused the state to put the brakes on the entire operation. As FSRN’s Melinda Tuhus reports, residents say...
Climate news can often be depressing. One study after the other confirms grim “worse than we thought” predictions while policymakers take little to no action. But occasionally there are small victories to report, and...
A new wage theft law is due to take effect in California on the first day of 2016, making California the latest state to take legislative action on the issue. California’s Senate Bill 588...
In 2012, Connecticut repealed the death penalty for all but the 11 people who were on death row at the time the law was passed. Thursday, the state’s Supreme Court ruled the part of...
In New Haven, Connecticut, a so-called “jobs pipeline” created by labor unions and community advocates, city officials, and the city’s largest employers has had some success in placing city residents in jobs over the...
Students at Harvard and Yale have joined other schools around the country in the past week as they step up their push for divestment of fossil fuel stocks from their universities’ multi-billion dollar endowment...
New Haven, Connecticut is just one of many U.S. cities that have taken a new or renewed interest in civilian review of police conduct after multiple police shootings of African American men and boys...
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