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More than three decades after groundwater treatment began, LLNL provides no estimate of how much contamination remains.

The post Cleanup Without an End Date: What LLNL’s 2025 Groundwater Report Leaves Unanswered appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

Join Tri-Valley CAREs on Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. for a neighborhood walking tour exploring the history of groundwater contamination and cleanup near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The post Beyond the Fence: Join Tri-Valley CAREs for a Walking Tour of Livermore Lab’s Off-Site Contamination and Cleanup appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

In 1939, the 25¢ paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics, and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?

Join Tri-Valley CAREs on Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. for a neighborhood walking tour exploring the history of groundwater contamination and cleanup near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The post Más Allá de la Cerca: Acompañe a Tri-Valley CAREs en un Recorrido a Pie Para Conocer la Contaminación Fuera del Recinto del Laboratorio de Livermore y las Labores de Limpieza appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

Socialism is on the march, and capitalism’s defenders are on the ropes. Shawn Gude’s American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs, a biography of the most prominent socialist agitator in American history, could hardly be more timely.

The stability of Vladimir Putin’s rule has long relied on encouraging citizens to ignore politics. But last month’s wartime elections instead saw a different approach, staging popular support for a further centralization of power.

In 1908, on one of his five presidential runs, legendary socialist organizer Eugene Debs embarked on a whirlwind tour across the country on his own train, the Red Special. His mission: spread the socialist gospel to any American who would hear him out.

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A four-hour legislative committee hearing in June, punctuated by applause and anger, offered a window into the growing backlash against data centers. The prospect of unchecked development has galvanized a cross-section of Ohioans, urban and rural, Democrat and Republican, alarmed about the spread of the giant computing facilities. Residents are demanding that local governments […]

Three years ago, hydrogen seemed poised for a long-awaited breakthrough. The Biden administration announced $7 billion in federal funding for seven hubs to produce the fuel across the country, and Pennsylvania was set to be a major player in the emerging industry.  Hydrogen has long been heralded as a potential skeleton key to emission reductions: […]

More than two years ago, courageous Awajún and Wampis survivors and women defenders broke the silence.

The post Awajún and Wampis Women Demand Real Action for Their Girls first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Larry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and to the men who used to read and write them?

Paulo Paulino Guajajara defended his people’s territory as a member of the Forest Guardians in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2019, illegal loggers murdered him.

The post Honoring the Indigenous Earth Defenders Who Protect the Amazon first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Statement from Laura Porter, Executive Director, U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty: “The extreme and gruesome spectacles of botched executions and livestreamed shootings illustrate why more and more Americans don’t trust the government with the death penalty. It is becoming increasingly clear that our state and federal governments lack the competence and the judgment […]

“Multiply the risk of a catastrophe by its disastrous consequences, and you will see that inaction is impossible.”

The post The Return of the Brazilian Far Right Is a Climate Catastrophe first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Robert Kramer’s films captured the New Left from the inside, from its promising beginning through its painful unraveling. He faded from view mostly because his work was so hard to see. In our new age of political volatility, he deserves a revival.

The Phillips curve holds that low unemployment drives inflation, meaning that controlling prices requires putting workers out of work. Its continuing influence shows how power over the money supply shapes class power.

Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. Things get a little fishy in this episode as we discuss fish farming—aquaculture, an industry that now brings in $300 billion a year. Inside Climate News partnered with the Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., to investigate aquaculture’s […]

This story is a partnership between Dylan Baddour of Inside Climate News and Neena Satija of The Texas Newsroom. Eight years ago, at the height of the shale-oil boom, a committee of industry giants and public officials unveiled a bold plan to make Corpus Christi “drought proof.” With this plan, a consultant explained to city […]

This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here. Inside a sprawling warehouse in northern France, millions of brown, inch-long mealworm larvae writhed in purple trays stacked 60 feet high. Grown by a company called Ynsect, these larvae were […]

A reply to Dave Kellaway, before the Budget.