Steve Cohen Is Spending Millions to Help Veterans. Why Are People Angry?
Steve Cohen’s network of clinics have thrust him into the spotlight over privatizing the VA. William Deshazer/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and Fortune. At a House hearing last year on post-traumatic stress disorder, a private organization showed up with an ambitious…
The Trump Administration Just Launched a “Brazen Attack” on Clean Air Standards
The demands showed a marked shift from 2012, when automakers, two of which had just received massive taxpayer-funded federal bailouts, agreed to increase standards after months of negotiations with federal and California regulators. But by 2016, fuel prices had fallen from a record high national average of $3.60 per gallon four years earlier, and Americans…
Starbucks Banning Straws Won’t Clean Up the Ocean, but It’s Still a Big Deal
StockSnap Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. To have an honest conversation about the ocean plastics crisis, one must accept two hard truths. The first is that the situation is dire: Every year, more than 8 million metric…
The Deepwater Horizon Spill Happened 8 Years Ago. The Ocean Still Hasn’t Recovered.
Researchers took sediment samples in 2014 from shipwrecks scattered up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the spill site to study how microbial communities on the wrecks have changed. On two shipwrecks close to the source of the outpouring of oil—a German U-Boat and a wooden 19th-century sailing vessel—scientists saw a visible oil residue. “At…
Jeff Sessions Named as Potential Witness in Alabama Corruption Trial
Michael Candelori / Pacific Press/Sipa USA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday was named as a potential witness in the federal corruption trial of an Alabama coal executive and two politically connected attorneys in that state, according to several Alabama news reports. The case—which is…
Trump’s Trade War Is Hurting Red-State Farmers—and Ripping Their GOP Senators Apart
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), left, is clashing with Trump over trade policy.Bill Clark/ ZUMA, Evan Golub/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Having yet again teed up a multi-front trade war with the United States’ biggest agricultural trading partners—Mexico, China, Canada, and the European Union—President Donald Trump’s agricultural policy team is talking tough.…