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Once protected by ice, Canada’s crumbling islands face disaster
ILES-DE-LA-MADELEINE, Quebec - The more than 12,000 residents of this windswept Canadian archipelago are facing a growing number of gut-wrenching choices, as extreme climate change transforms the land and water...
Supreme Court refuses to block young people’s climate lawsuit against U.S. government
The Supreme Court on Friday night refused to halt a novel lawsuit filed by young Americans that attempts to force the federal government to take action on climate change, turning...
For Pruitt, gaining Trump’s favor — and keeping it — came through fierce allegiance
In the run-up to the decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement last May, President Donald Trump wanted the opinion of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. But...
EPA whistleblower details Scott Pruitt’s spending and travel excesses
Two years ago, Kevin Chmielewski was a Donald Trump campaign aide who was working tirelessly to ensure that the New York businessman became America's 45th president. He even convinced Trump...
In scathing lawsuit, first responders describe vomiting, gasping at Texas chemical plant fire
A group of first responders exposed to smoke from a Crosby, Texas, chemical plant fire after Hurricane Harvey are suing the owner of the plant for more than $1 million,...
Fred Kummerow, U. of I. professor who fought against trans fats, dies at 102
Fred Kummerow sounded equal parts relieved and content on that Tuesday afternoon in June 2015. The Food and Drug Administration had decided to ban artificial trans fats from the U.S....
Scientists frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in...
Trader Joe’s is forced to fix refrigerators, cut greenhouse gas emissions
Trader Joe's will spend millions of dollars over the next several years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its refrigeration equipment as part of a settlement with the Environmental Protection...
Rattled by drug price increases, hospitals struggle with costs, care
Doctors at the University Hospitals of Cleveland see an immediately recognizable symbol pop up alongside certain drugs when they sign in online these days to prescribe medications for patients: $$$$$....