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May 7, 2025

A Cruel Tradeoff: Building the “Amazon of Deportation” While Tearing Down Health and Human Services

The Trump administration wants to spend $45 billion to build an inhumane deportation industry while planning to cut at least $40 billion in life-saving programs from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Derrick Z. Jackson
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May 7, 2025

How Science and Advocacy Ended Dangerous Nuclear Testing in the United States

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

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May 6, 2025

Wetlands and Streams Face a New Threat from the Trump Administration

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BlackRock Faces the Reality of Climate Activism

Nicole Pinko
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May 6, 2020

Responding to COVID-19 Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Frontline Communities

Genna Reed
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May 6, 2020

Responder al COVID-19 no tiene que significar sacrificar a las comunidades vulnerables

Genna Reed
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May 5, 2020

Why Congress Must Invest in Environmental Justice and Equity in the Next Recovery Package

Adrienne Hollis
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May 5, 2020

New Study Shows Benefits of Voting by Mail

Michael Latner
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May 5, 2020

Ask a Scientist: What Should a Post-Pandemic Economy Look Like?

Elliott Negin
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May 4, 2020

Nuclear Weapons, Frontline Communities, and the COVID Stimulus. What You Need to Know.

Lilly Adams
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May 2, 2020

Movie Review: Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” Traffics in Myths, Errors, and Dangerous Misdirection

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May 1, 2020

Does Japan Have Nuclear Weapons?

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The White House Scrapped the Science on Trichloroethylene—So We’re Urging the EPA to Investigate

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April 30, 2020

Trump Administration Axes Coronavirus Research

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

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April 29, 2020

In the Wake of COVID-19, Congress Must Support Pre-Disaster Mitigation Programs

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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April 29, 2020

The Crisis Within the Crisis: COVID-19 Is Ravaging African Americans

Adrienne Hollis
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What I Wish I Had Said on CNN About Trump’s “Lysol and Sunshine” Speech

Joel Clement
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April 29, 2020

EPA Advisory Board’s Restricted Science Advice Is Too Little, Too Late, and Comes During a National Crisis

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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April 29, 2020

The Biggest Step To-Date on Electric Trucks

Jimmy O'Dea
Former Contributor

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April 29, 2020

Even With Negative Oil Prices and COVID-19 Global Standstill, ExxonMobil, Chevron Must Still Commit to Net Zero Emissions

Nicole Pinko
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April 28, 2020

How to Keep US South Safe from COVID-19 and Scorching Heat, Even as Some States Ignore Pandemic Dangers

Rachel Licker
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April 28, 2020

How to Help Coal Communities Recover from the Pandemic

Jeremy Richardson
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April 28, 2020

Numbers that Take Your Breath Away: COVID-19, Air Pollution, and Equity

Maria Cecilia Pinto de Moura
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April 28, 2020

Worker Memorial Day in the Time of COVID-19

Kathleen Rest
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April 27, 2020

Oil Industry Ghostwrites Trump’s Deadly Anti-Environmental Policies

Elliott Negin
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April 27, 2020

What Does “Fairness to Coal Workers” Mean in the Response to COVID-19?

Jeremy Richardson
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April 27, 2020

Two Clean Energy Programs from the Past that can Help Build to the Future

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