The Amount of Toxic Wastewater Produced by Fracking is Unbelievable
The number of new fracking wells decreased as gas prices fell, but the amount of water used per well skyrocketed, with up to 1,440 percent more toxic wastewater generated in the first year of each new well’s production period by 2016. The research, published Wednesday afternoon in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, raises new concerns…
Trump Planning Revenge on Bruce Ohr Just Because He Can
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Washington Post: BREAKING NEWS: Trump says he plans to revoke security clearance for Justice Department official Bruce Ohr “very quickly” Bruce Ohr used to be an associate deputy attorney general and presumably still has a job at that level—although DOJ refuses to say…
Trump Cancels Military Parade, Floats Buying 2/3rds of Fighter Jet
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump, who skillfully avoided military service and once compared his own promiscuous sex life in the eighties with Vietnam, was forced to cancel his military parade after estimates of its cost ballooned from $12 million to $92 million. On Thursday, the Secretary of Defense…
Roger Stone’s Super-PAC Paid the Manhattan Madam’s Mom During the 2016 Campaign
Roger Stone and Kristin Davis leave court in New York on March 30, 2017. Seth Wenig/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why did a super-PAC run by longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone pay nearly $5,000 to the mother of Kristin Davis, the so-called “Manhattan Madam,” in July 2016? This may…
Watch Our Exclusive Studio Interview With “March for Our Lives” Leaders
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones recently invited three top student leaders from the March for Our Lives movement into our studio to mark the six-month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, and to talk about what they learned during their national “Road to Change” tour, which made its final…
Internal ICE Emails Show How the Government Set a Trap for Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers debrief after operations to arrest undocumented immigrants in New York in April. John Moore/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 30, Lucimar de Souza, an undocumented immigrant from Brazil, went into a US Citizenship and Immigration Services office to prove her marriage to an American citizen was legitimate.…