Community Action
May 8, 2009 -
After years of pressure from grassroots activists, the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry announced last week that it was withdrawing its 1997 report that wrongly claimed there was little cancer risk from chemical-contaminated drinking water at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune near Jacksonville, N.C.
May 7, 2009 -
Though the start of the hurricane season is just three weeks away, Gulf Coast advocates are looking at something brighter on the horizon.
May 6, 2009 -
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media
April 20, 2009 -
Today marks an important moment in the intensifying political battle ov
April 14, 2009 -
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed last December over the University of Texas Board of Regents' decision to lay off thousands of the school's Medical Branch employees in the aftermath of Hurr