We sanitize happily in the United States. In fact, we are blessed to not have to pay a lot of attention to our toilets
Category: Environment
TPP: What Bernie Sanders can do and Barack Obama can’t, or won’t
Being a United States Senator from Vermont is a difficult job, but it pales in comparison to being President of the United States. As
Keystone pipeline vote: corporate money trumps public good
The fossil-fuel industry is reaping the rewards of its three-quarters of a billion dollar investment to secure a Republican controlled congress. But they weren’t just buying
Claire McCaskill’s doomed love affair with Keystone XL
Today Claire McCaskill did it. She voted with all Senate Republicans and nine Senate Democrats to pass the House’s Keystone XL authorization. Of course,
The People’s Climate March, Howard Zinn, and why we all need to join in
When I first got wind of the People’s Climate March taking place in New York City on September 21, my first thought was “will
Health risks demand a moratorium on fracking
A rapidly growing body of research demonstrates that hydraulic fracturing poses dangers not only to the environment but to people’s health. Once contamination occurs
We’ve adjusted to the new normal, and that’s unfortunate
Don Corrigan, newspaper editor, author and college professor, taught us something new at the Missouri Progressive Action Group meeting on Saturday. In addition to
Al Gore’s good news (for a change) on climate and renewable energy
Eight years ago. Al Gore released “An Inconvenient Truth,” the book and documentary film that laid out the scientific consensus connecting the burning of
Microbeads: A not-so-tiny problem
In the well-lit aisles of your drugstore, millions of tiny and dangerous pollutants lurk in the cheerful packaging of your favorite exfoliating cleansers.
Give her a break. It’s not easy to run for office in coal country
As a supporter of environmental protection, I think that, in the macro sense, we can place strict environmental regulations on our energy companies and