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90,000 Gallon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico Just Business As Usual for Shell

Royal Dutch Shell’s offshore drilling operations were pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, ultimately releasing nearly 90,000 gallons of oil into the water off the Louisiana coast. “We have allowed the [Gulf] to be perpetually treated as a sacrifice zone—a place where we tolerate pollution and disasters to continue our dependence on Read More…

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Leaked Email Catches Michigan Officials Manipulating Lead Tests — Eight Years Ago

In 2008, a Michigan environmental official told lead test technicians to “bump out” sky-high lead results by collecting more clean water samples A newly resurfaced email demonstrates that in 2008 an official from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) tried to manipulate lead tests by suggesting that technicians collect extra water samples to make the Read More…

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Emergency Lawsuit Highlights Voter Frustration with New York Primary Process

One day before primary, voters sue Board of Elections and say mysterious “purges” of voting rolls have disenfranchised unsuspecting New Yorkers As voters on Tuesday morning began casting ballots around New York in the state’s Democratic and Republican primaries, a federal court in New York City was scheduled to hear an emergency class-action lawsuit that Read More…