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The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) flawed assessment that fracking has not led to “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States” must be urgently corrected, more than 200 environmental and public interest groups demanded in a letter (pdf) to EPA chief Gina McCarthy on Monday. Not only did that language “seriously misrepresen[t]…

As the movement to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day finds success in communities from Phoenix, Arizona to the state of Vermont, the battle for Indigenous rights in the face of industrial development rages on. #IndigenousPeoplesDay Tweets In North Dakota, 27 Indigenous water protectors were arrested in Monday’s action to peacefully…

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin—a man described as “the anti-populist from Hell”—is his pick for Treasury secretary. His appointment, according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), “should send shivers down the spine of every American who got hit hard by the financial crisis.” Mnuchin, she added, “is the Forrest…

A pro-Trump outside group aligned with Stephen Bannon endorsed three Republicans running for Senate on Wednesday, firing the starting pistol on what’s shaping up to be a nasty primary season for the GOP. The Great America Alliance — an antiestablishment group which counts Bannon’s political adviser Andy Surabian as a strategist — announced it will support West Virginia…

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This post may be updated. Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday, as images on social media showed a dramatic standoff along a creek that borders a construction site for the long-opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Jordan Chariton, a political reporter with The Young Turks network, posted this video dispatch after covering…

Dealing what campaigners say is the final “death blow” to the pro-corporate Canada-European Union trade deal, negotiations collapsed on Friday after representatives from the Belgian region of Wallonia refused to agree to a deal that continues ignore democracy in favor of multi-national corporations. Canada’s International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland reportedly walked out of talks with…

The movement to make college campuses into sanctuaries for undocumented students is growing, with walkouts and sit-ins taking place around the country on Thursday. Students and faculty in Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Washington state held protests to support the #SanctuaryCampus movement, asking their universities to refuse voluntary information sharing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

As 2016 continues on its march toward becoming the hottest year on record, the Arctic is seeing extreme warmth beyond anything previously recorded at this time of year—prompting alarm from climate scientists around the world. Click Here: cd universidad catolica “Folks, we’re in a climate emergency,” tweeted meteorologist Eric Holthaus. The temperature at the North…

Twenty state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Thursday against several pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of entering into “numerous illegal conspiracies” to fix generic drug prices at consumers’ expense. Click Here: Putters The federal lawsuit (pdf) names generic drug-makers Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc., Citron Pharma, LLC, Mayne Pharma (USA), Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,…