Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Elizabeth Warren led nine of her Democratic colleagues in the Senate Wednesday in demanding a federal investigation into President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ralph Nader
Dumb, disgraceful Donald still sneers at the oncoming climate catastrophe, calling it a hoax. (Photo: Oil Change International/Twitter)
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Markie Miller, Crystal Jankowski
Earth Day’s laws have systematically failed to guard against mass species die-offs, the climate crisis, deadly air pollution, the corporatization of freshwater, and the largest loss of biodiversity in human history. (Photo: Bird’s eye view of wide-spread contamination in Lake Erie)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We cannot continue spending billions of dollars on weapons of war while people across the country struggle to buy food, pay rent, and survive a pandemic."
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F. Douglas Stephenson
Don’t believe the Medicare-for-all fear-mongering by Big Insurance and others. (Photo: Screenshot)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
An organization launched in 2017 by former staffers of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the 50th annual Earth Day Wednesday by releasing a report about the efforts of President Donald Trump's administration to gut regulations enacted under his predecessors to preserve public health and the planet.
Margaret Kimberley
Cooperation Humboldt is a model for ecological, economic and human sustainability. (Photo: Cooperation Humboldt)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Not understanding disclosure is a pretty bad look for the member of Congress chosen to force disclosure out of the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve on its lending programs."
Alex Kotch
People take part in a protest for "Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine" at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on April 15, 2020. (Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are trying to use the pandemic as an excuse to slash payroll contributions, Social Security's dedicated funding."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Immigrant rights groups on Wednesday condemned the Trump administration's decision to exclude undocumented students from a $6 billion aid program that the Education Department unveiled earlier this month, calling the exclusion needlessly "cruel."
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Robert Reich
The five biggest U.S. airlines spent 96 percent of their free cash flow over the last decade buying back shares of their own stock to boost executive bonuses and please wealthy investors. (Photo: Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We are in a national health and economic emergency and we need Congress to start acting like it."
Lois Marie Gibbs
TOTAL refinery, Port Arthur, Texas. (Photo: Hilton Kelley, CIDAInc.org / cc)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you leave it to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell we will have a Great Depression. If we had the right policy structure in place we could avoid it easily."
Madeleine Bair
Jessica Thomas, Roxbury Liaison for Mayor Marty Walsh, is silhouetted as she leaves City Hall to drive her speaker truck through Roxbury and surrounding areas broadcasting information to help residents stay safe in multiple languages during the COVID-19 epidemic in Boston on April 19, 2020. (Photo by Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
