Nullius in verba
In this fateful election year, the Republican party is choosing to offer American voters nothing but NO. No to treating the homeless like human beings. No to stopping greenhouse emissions and battling climate change. No to federal workers. No to unions. No to teachers. No to public education. No to opposing racism. No to civil […]
While poverty and pollution are bad for anyone’s health, they’re much tougher on children from poor families, as all social and environmental troubles are. But just because a family lives in a low-income community that suffers in baffling ways from pollution doesn’t mean their kids are ill-treated and unloved. When we read headlines that […]
The oil and gas industry has a lot to answer for, everywhere in the world, including New Mexico. Fossil fuel extraction processes, particularly venting and flaring, are the direct cause of some $7.3 billion in health costs in our country every year, according to a study conducted recently by the Boston University School of Public […]
A bold spirit of the citizenry is needed to tackle issues like gun violence and pollution.
Require the oil and gas industry to clean up its own toxic water.
The logic of electoral karma.
Our representatives must address this public health emergency.