U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy announced today proposed pollution limits for power plants that would require dramatic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. download “Our plan aims to cut energy waste and leverage...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in favor of a developmentally disabled man on Florida’s death row, saying states must consider more than just an intelligence test score to determine if a prisoner with...
The US House of Representatives passed the so-called USA Freedom Act on Thursday, a bi-partisan bill designed to reign in the National Security Agency’s practice of suspicionless surveillance and bulk collection of US phone...
The federal government released the National Climate Assessment report today, a comprehensive look at the country’s current and future climate challenges. The wide ranging study includes work by more than 300 experts and over...
In Yemen, at least 55 people died over the past three days, killed by airstrikes reportedly launched from drones. The Yemeni government says the dead were militants. According to a New York Times investigation...
New telecommunications regulations in Mexico have met opposition online and in the streets. The reform was originally presented as a way to break up telecom monopolies, but critics say it is being used to...
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative for Asia and the Pacific, Hirouyuki Konuma, says despite food production currently ahead of demand, agricultural production must increase by 60 percent to meet the world...
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major decision today in a case that challenged spending limits for campaign contributions. In its 5-4 ruling in the case known as McCutcheon v. the Federal Election...
The debt relief organization Jubilee USA Network and 75 other religious and development groups filed an Amicus brief with the US Supreme Court today in a case that pits Argentina against NML Capital. The...
On March 9th, the people of El Salvador went to the polls and elected former guerrilla Salvador Sanchez Ceren as President by a razor-thin margin. International observers declared the election “free and fair”, but...
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