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A climate report ordered by the Legislature offers a roadmap for tackling warming and pollution at the same time, an approach that could bridge the partisan divide.

As the Senate debates Donald Trump’s future, chief executives, financiers and politicians have assembled in Davos, Switzerland, for their annual self-congratulatory defense of global capitalism. The events are not unrelated.

Mitch McConnell's proposed impeachment trial rules seem built to block witnesses and evidence the House collected during the impeachment inquiry.

"Major changes are needed," declares the 159,000-member American College of Physicians, "to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little."

Mitch McConnell might include a rule allowing Trump's defense team to move to dismiss the impeachment articles if the trial is going on too long.

While the Sanders campaign demanded an apology from the network, critics of Joy Ann Reid's morning show said the segment was "fraudulent garbage" and a "disgrace."

Donald Trump 'has taken hatred against people of color, in general, from the closet to the front porch,' one poll respondent said.

You don’t have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube.

Legislation includes bills criminalizing gender transition, forced gender testing of student athletes, and other attacks on trans youth.

The Trump administration is withholding $8 billion in disaster aid until Puerto Rico agrees to certain conditions, including paying workers less.

"We need a revolution. Literally, it's a life or death matter."

"None of the candidates who said they support keeping troops in Iraq were asked how they were going to pay for it."

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In 2017, Dow Chemical scored a long-sought-after victory: After a push from the U.S. government, China approved the import of the company’s genetically modified herbicide-resistant corn seeds.

A grateful Dow lobbyist emailed a senior Agriculture Department official whose support had been critical: “Thank you for your efforts

DOJ attorneys describe working with industry lawyers as a ‘team,’ raising questions about whether government was representing the American people.

Critics say he’s undermining a bedrock environmental protection law that established government’s duty as 'trustee of the environment for succeeding generations.'

While there are some very good economic reporters out there, it is clear that the major news outlets care very little about accurately informing their audience about the economy.

Yet another politically motivated investigation into Hillary Clinton comes up blank.

Section 8 vouchers should give low-income people the opportunity to live outside poor communities. But discriminatory landlords, exclusionary zoning and the federal government’s hands-off approach leave recipients with few places to call home.

'Nobody saw it coming this soon,' one scientist said. 'It’s likely the forests won’t be coming back as we know them.'

The cable news host was far from alone in criticizing the reckless march to war from Trump, the U.S. military establishment, and their media allies.