A new analysis shows that a “large portion” of Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
Read more...Biden’s EPA yesterday moved to take steps to block the controversial Pebble Mine, which threatens the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
Read more...Big Oil has moved on from outright climate change denial to promoting discourses of delay.
Read more...With these vaccines as our only real defense, we may survive the virus living among us, but the virus among us may survive as well.
Read more...On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
Read more...The Grey Lady celebrates the culinary alchemy that’s processing plant-based foods so it tastes like meat, dairy, and the pièce de résistance: Spam.
Read more...Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.
Read more...The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.
Read more...In two August reports documenting the presence of PFAS and plastics contaminants in compost, the EPA tags food waste as the source.
Read more...Tropical storm Ida reminds us how little U.S. politicians have done to address climate change since Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005.
Read more...Political and scientific leaders meet in Marseille to debate the biodiversity crisis; meanwhile closer to home, a NYC volunteer group moves to help protect nesting piping plovers.
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