Young People Are Registering to Vote in Huge Numbers, New Study Finds
Student protesters at the March for Our Lives in Detroit, Michigan on March 24, 2018.Chirag Wakaskar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The March for Our Lives teens said they’d #VoteThemOut, and a new study suggests they could be poised to do just that. According to the…
Internal Watchdog Blasts EPA’s Response to Flint Water Crisis in Blistering Report
Michael Nigro/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A long-awaited report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog criticized the agency’s initial approach to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and urged a series of reforms to ensure that such a dramatic breakdown in state and federal…
Republicans Are Finally Talking About a Carbon Tax. Not in a Good Way.
Jan-Otto, Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a symbolic resolution that calls a tax on carbon “detrimental to the United States economy” in a 229 to 180 vote. Sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La), the resolution rejects a carbon tax by listing a dozen different…
Environmentalists Are Worried Trump’s Supreme Court Pick “Is the Next Scott Pruitt”
Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Unlike the president who nominated him to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t hesitate to call climate change a problem. “The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important at the national and international level,” he wrote in a…
Welcome to Tampa, Where Feral Chickens Are High on the Pecking Order
Dylan Breese/Ybor Chicken Society Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today, Tampa, Florida’s city council will decide the fate of its feathered population. The city’s Cuban quarter, called Ybor City, has long been home to roaming feral chickens. Smaller in stature and more agile than your ordinary backyard birds, they have…
Court Documents Show How OxyContin’s Sales Team Pushed “Hope in a Bottle”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2007, a sales representative for Purdue Pharma visited a family doctor in Kingston, Tennessee, to urge the physician to prescribe more OxyContin. The doctor was interested in pain management, but didn’t prescribe the opioid painkiller because he’d heard that it was often resold on…