Garment workers demanding unpaid wages from notorious factory owner.
Bangladesh police on Thursday stormed a factory where garment workers were on their 10th day of a hunger strike in a demand for unpaid wages. The police used batons, a water cannon, rubber bullets and teargas to disperse the 400 workers inside the factory as well as the hundreds of other garment workers from nearby factories who had gathered
‘We need to get off the pesticide treadmill,’ said George Naylor, farmer and Center for Food Safety Board Member
Watchdog groups are denouncing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recommendation on Wednesday to approve new varieties of genetically engineered corn and soybeans as a path towards more toxic pesticides that threaten the environment and public health. "We are outraged," stated Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD, senior scientist with Pesticide Action
Contractor given 28-month prison sentence, $25,000 fine by U.S. district judge
The owner of a Youngstown, Ohio-based company was sentenced on Tuesday to over two years in prison for ordering his employees to repeatedly dump toxic fracking waste into a local waterway. Between Nov. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013, employees of Hardrock Excavating LLC, which provided services to the oil and gas industry including storing fracking
“I have no doubt there will be other sources inside the government who see extreme wrongdoing who are inspired by Edward Snowden,” Greenwald said.
The United Sates government has determined there is a new person leaking secret documents, CNN reported Tuesday. The news comes the same as day as new reporting by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux for The Intercept revealed that many of those on the government's terrorist watchlist have no terrorist group affiliation. Their reporting cites
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture tells Mechanicsburg library its seed library is a violation.
A public library in small Pennsylvania town offered a new public resource for its patrons: a seed library. That is, until the state Department of Agriculture pulled the rug out from under the plan. Launched on April 26, the seed library at Mechanicsburg's Joseph T. Simpson Public Library would have held all heirloom, and preferable organic,
Law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges “would have the striking result of closing three of Alabama’s five abortion clinics,” judge rules.
A federal court on Monday ruled that Alabama's law requiring abortion-providing doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals is unconstitutional. The law was originally passed in 2013 and was promptly challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
“These families have been living with Union Carbide pollution for decades. We remain committed to seeking the justice that they deserve,” said co-counsel Rajan Sharma.
Victims of the notorious Bhopal chemical plant disaster are still seeking justice after a U.S. district court judge on Wednesday ruled (pdf) that Union Carbide Corp. (UCC) cannot be sued for ongoing contamination from the plant. The disaster, dubbed "The Hiroshima of the Chemical Industry," began in 1984 when a cloud of poisonous gas, methyl