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The environmental nightmare you know nothing about.

Gulf residents and cleanup workers continue to suffer serious health problems from the 2010 disaster, but the oil giant is not being held to account.

What kind of damaged world is being left to our descendents?

Widespread resistance to natural gas fracking is rising above New York's Marcellus Shale.

COLLEGE FINALIST: The range of options that my generation has to choose from has been whittled to a handful of bad ones. I am coming of age not in the land of the free, but in the land of the dependent.

The European Union exists in a no-man’s-land between democracy and technocracy.

When Martha Sanchez became a community organizer, the paint-cleaning company that was polluting her neighborhood and sickening local children met its match.

It’s not hard to understand how environmental quality and economic inequality came to be joined at the hip.

A truly democratic food system will need to rewrite the rules of our financial system.

The biggest threat we face is the control of seed and food moving into a few corporate hands.