Andrea Germanos Posts

Fruitless searches for the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing three weeks ago have put a spotlight on another horror—the state of our garbage-filled oceans.

A federal judge delivered a court victory to Chevron on Tuesday, ruling that a U.S. lawyer had engaged in "corrupt means" to obtain a multi-billion dollar judgment in 2011 against the oil giant for its decades of pollution in Ecuador.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued report on Monday criticizing a slew of government programs that have provided a safety net for millions of Americans.

Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter signed into law on Friday legislation that criminalizes those who secretly document abuse of animals at agricultural facilities.

A new study puts the spotlight on tar sands' threat to one of the planet's precious and increasingly scarce resources—water.

As a 'significant winter storm' continues to batter the eastern part of the nation with snow and ice, leaving at least 14 dead and cutting off power for half a million people, experts are urging people to see the event as part of climate change and a reminder of the need to ditch fossil fuels.

According to a statement from well operator Chevron, the fire broke out at approximately 6:45 Tuesday morning at their well in Dunkard Township in Greene County, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh.

"Right now, if financial institutions can just settle their claims out of court, and get a raise for settling them, then where's the deterrent?"

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund and Mexico’s National Commission for Protected Areas found that the number of monarch butterflies hibernating in Mexico dropped to its lowest level since records began in 1993.

Leaked internal documents reveal Walmart's attempts to stop workers from mobilizing for fair wages and decent workplace conditions. The documents are two PowerPoint Presentations from the retail giant directed at employees and were published at OccupyWallSt.org on Wednesday.

The National Security Agency won't deny that it may be spying on members of Congress, informing Sen. Bernie Sanders that the agency can't tell him whether it snooped on his metadata because searching to find out would be illegal.

Consumers who want to know if their personal care products contain carcinogens or toxins have a new tool available to them. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) unveiled on Friday a searchable database that allows consumers to look up a particular ingredient, product or brand to see if it is potentially harmful.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a group of farmers the right to challenge Monsanto's seed patents, a decision critics charge allows the biotech giant's "reign of intimidation" to continue.

Evidence gathered by a human rights group has forced the Obama administration to investigate a deadly drone strike that targeted a wedding party in Yemen and killed a dozen people.

Edward Snowden delivering an "Alternative Christmas Message" on Channel 4. (Screenshot)NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered an "alternative Christmas message" on the UK's Channel 4 in which he says that "a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all," and that the kinds of surveillance outlined in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four "are nothing compared to what we have available today."

Consumer Reports tested over 300 raw chicken breasts, including some labeled as organic and antibiotic free, at national retailers. The study found that nearly all (97 percent) had potentially harmful bacteria, and roughly half (49.7 percent) the chicken sampled contained at least one multidrug-­resistant bacterium.

A snowy standoff took place in New Brunswick between Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and anti-fracking protesters on Sunday as Elsipogtog community members and their allies continue the fight to protect their land from shale gas exploration.

Pope Francis has issued a new document in which he rails against growing inequality, trickle-down economics and the current socioeconomic system that "is unjust at its root." Issued on Tuesday, his 224-page document, called an apostolic exhortation, is titled The Joy of the Gospel, and follows previous remarks the pontiff has made against inequality.

A federal judge with a history of slamming the regulatory system issued scathing remarks against the Department of Justice on Tuesday for allowing Wall Street executives to escape criminal prosecutions.

Canada is on a race "to destroy the environment as fast as possible," said noted linguist and intellectual Noam Chomsky in an interview with the Guardian.