November 4, 2020 – This article was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom based in Washington, D.C. www.publicintegrity.org This is a news analysis from the Center for Public Integrity. Early Wednesday morning, Americans went to bed in the middle of a political cliffhanger. The main character in peril is our democracy. […]
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Lawsuit seeks court action to prevent deaths and neglect in ICE detention
August 21, 2019 – A lawsuit filed Monday in California includes extensive allegations of preventable deaths, medical neglect and other abusive treatment of immigrant detainees inside an expanding national network of public and privately-run jails. The 200-page class-action lawsuit includes disturbing descriptions of life for people held in civil — not criminal — custody at some of the 158 […]
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Industrial waste pollutes America’s drinking water
PHOENIX, Aug. 18, 2017 – In Ringwood, New Jersey, Ford Motor Co. dumped more than 35,000 tons of toxic paint sludge onto lands occupied for centuries by the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape tribe, poisoning groundwater with arsenic, lead and other harmful chemicals. Today, more than 43 years after the dumping ended, those toxins are […]
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With Trump’s election’ it will be possible for states to choose to become pollution havens’
Nov. 21, 2016 – No one has to convince Tuere Brown that climate change is real. Like many of her neighbors, Brown has grown accustomed to the tide-induced flooding that can disrupt daily life in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region, where a sinking shoreline meets a sea level now 15 inches higher than it was 80 […]