Environment

After years of conservation, Brazil's environmental track record has nose-dived in the first seven months of Bolsonaro's administration.

Over 80 percent of directors had a past or current tie to polluting industries, either as a current or former adviser or employee.

When it comes to planetary survival, the answer from the top of the AFL-CIO (The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) hierarchy remains: We’re on the wrong side.

Veterinarians have an opportunity to uphold medical ethics—and give the nation’s factory-farmed animals a small bit of mercy when they are killed.

“The Trump Administration is focused on finding ways to unleash American energy."

“We need to cut the short-lived pollutants so that there are no short-term catastrophes in the next 25 years, without losing track of the long term.”

It is a million times higher than what the agency usually considers acceptable for new chemicals and six times worse than the risk of lung cancer from a lifetime of smoking.

The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter it sent last week to state regulators in response to civil rights complaints about air pollution in the region known as Cancer Alley.

“This is a really key and important time to ensure those bailouts are not used to extend the lives of these companies, but instead are able to potentially take them into public ownership and then ensure that they aren't shedding worker commitments or community commitments or environmental commitments.”

“We’re not going to sit back and allow a decision that could harm public health during a public health crisis go unscathed,” said Earthjustice. “We’ll be seeing them in court.”