Heat Is Killing US Workers as OSHA Takes Its Sweet Time
Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every year, heat causes at least 170,000 work-related injuries and as many as 2,000 fatalities. It’s one of the top five causes of workplace injuries and deaths, and summers are getting hotter. Despite the growing risk of heat, the Occupational…
A Texas Supreme Court Just Upheld an Abortion Ban From 1925
Jose Luis Magana/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.For women seeking abortions in Texas, as well as the network of advocates and medical providers trying to help them, it has been a week of whiplash. They lost the right to abortion…
Richmond Police Finally Admit to Tear-Gassing Peaceful Protest, Hope No One Notices.
ob Karp/ZUMA Press Wire Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Friday, the Richmond, Virginia, police department sent out an important clarification: Contrary to what it had previously insisted, the protesters they tear-gassed at a Confederate monument in June of 2020 were…
Minnesota Just Legalized Edibles After a Republican Didn’t Read the Bill
Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/ZUMA Press Wire Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Here’s something you don’t see every day: On Friday, THC-infused edibles and beverages became legal in the great state of Minnesota, after a law containing the legalization measure was included in…
The Nightmare Politics and Sticky Science of Hacking the Climate
Getty Images This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One way to fight climate change may be to…do more climate change. “Geoengineering” is a broad term encompassing distinct techniques for hacking the climate, split into two main groups: There’s carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which could mean sucking carbon…
New York Is Expanding Abortion Access. Now It Just Needs to Become Liveable.
Lev Radin/Pacific Press via ZUMA Pres Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.New York state didn’t wait too long to respond to the Supreme Court rulings on gun control and abortion. On Friday, after Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul called a special session,…