Utilities Have Been Lying to us About Gas Stoves Since the 1970s
Michael Bocchieri/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One-third of American kitchens have gas stoves—and evidence is piling up that they’re polluting homes with toxic chemicals. A study this summer found that using a single gas stove burner on high can raise levels of cancer-causing benzene above…
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
Residents of a Central Romana batey in 2021.Pedro Farais-Nardi Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel…
Jim Jordan Unpauses His Speaker Campaign
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, arrives for the Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update, October 19, 2:47 pm ET: Never mind, apparently he’s going to try…
Release the Kraken! Sidney Powell Just Pleaded Guilty in Georgia Election Trial and Agreed to Testify.
Sidney Powell’s plea deal is bad for Rudy Giuliani.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney who is charged along with the former president and 17 others in an election subversion case in Georgia, pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanor…
“Attacking Health Workers Is a War Crime”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1996, when Leonard Rubenstein became the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, the war in the former Yugoslavia had just ended. PHR, a US-based advocacy group, prepared a report on the brutal attacks on Kosovo Hospital in…
Coal Communities Fear Exclusion From Environmental Justice Initative
Belle Ayr Mine near Gillette, Wyoming Mead Gruver/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Officials from declining coal communities in Wyoming worry that the Biden administration’s environmental justice agenda is hurting their ability to compete for billions of dollars in federal clean energy and infrastructure grants,…