Sulfur Dioxide Damages Lungs, and Scott Pruitt Is Letting More of It in Our Air
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a quarter of the nation’s coal-fired power plants in 2017 lacked pollution controls limiting emissions of lung-damaging sulfur dioxide, even though some of their counterparts have been using the controls for almost 40 years. Federal data show this disparity. It leaves…
Cate Blanchett Just Led a Powerful Silent Protest for Gender Equity on the Cannes Red Carpet
Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, actress Cate Blanchett and 81 other women in film marched in silence on the red carpet to call out the lack of female directors selected for the world’s top festival. The women stopped halfway up…
Farmers Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet. This Controversial Policy Could Help.
The Dykstra Dairy Farm has been a fixture in Burlington, WA, for three generations of the Dykstra family. Conventional dairy farms have been struggling for years. Until recently, Dykstra said it seemed organic dairy farms were somewhat shielded from the volatility of the conventional market. Now, organic dairies are struggling alongside conventional dairies, further adding…
This Is Your Banking System on Trump
Getty Images This story first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Warning: What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016 election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets. It’s the Beltway story hiding in plain sight with trillions of dollars in play and an economy to…
The Case for Building Public Housing That Doesn’t Suck—And Lots of It
Units in the Seestadt Aspern urban development zone in Vienna, Austria.Imago/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Housing has been one of the single greatest vehicles for building wealth in the United States. Yet the ranks of Americans who can’t find affordable housing are swelling. Although the problem goes back decades, the collapse…
“We Wouldn’t Need the Suicide Hotline If Dairy Farmers Were Getting Paid What They Deserve”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brenda Cochran was a self-described “city girl” before she married her husband in 1973. He was a dairy farmer, so she joined him on a small farm in Pennsylvania. They’ve been working together since 1975. Cochran says that if she’d known how difficult dairy farming…