By Chelsea Conaboy on November 13, 2018
President Trump blames deadly blazes on state mismanagement of the forests, drawing outrage from a firefighters labor leader.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on November 6, 2018
Despite federal assurance that the research doesn’t apply to people, critics say the results raise health concerns for children and others.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on October 30, 2018
Weakened rules on how public lands may be used have spurred a surge in the leasing of parcels for oil and gas drilling
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By Chelsea Conaboy on October 16, 2018
The Labor Department has been busy. Investigators recovered a record amount of illegally underpaid wages during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on October 9, 2018
The world’s leading body of climate scientists has issued a report saying that climate change is altering the planet more rapidly than previously thought and that things will have to change rapidly to moderate the effects,
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By Chelsea Conaboy on October 2, 2018
In the year after the slaughter that killed 58 people on the Las Vegas strip, state lawmakers have had mixed success in passing new gun control measures.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on September 25, 2018
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has documented 2,173 cases of the foodborne illness cyclosporiasis from May through August this year. That’s a surge in the case count from prior years.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on September 18, 2018
Authorities told JUUL and four other makers of e-cigarettes that they have 60 days to submit a plan addressing the problem, while also sending more than 1,300 warning letters to retailers that it said illegally sold e-cigarette products to teens.
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By Chelsea Conaboy on September 11, 2018
A hat-trick for the energy industry: The Trump administration is once again turning energy industry hopes into reality, with a plan to make it easier for oil and gas wells to leak methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases. Coral Davenport of The New York Times reports that the Environmental Protection Agency will put…
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Standing Up for Free Speech and Open Government
By Sue Cross">Sue Cross on August 16, 2018
Today, the Institute for Nonprofit News joins journalists across the country in asking you, the public, to stand up for your rights to free speech and an open government.
This started as a campaign by The Boston Globe to ask the President of the United States to knock off attacking the news media. But the President’s attacks on the press aren’t ultimately about the press.
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