No U.S. Troops in Haiti: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Military Mission Would Not Help Country

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• A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate and Grief
  The latest of thousands of innocent victims of inhuman ethnic cleansing carnage, Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old Haitian honor student, soccer player, aspiring doctor and "beautiful soul" in Ohio who, overwhelmed by the shame of an ICE shackle and the fear of being sent back to his ravaged country, walked into highway traffic and […]
• Trump Administration Takes Another Swing at Dismantling Clean Water Protections
  The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today proposed a rule that would strip Clean Water Act protections from the vast majority of the country’s wetlands and streams. The proposal would generally protect only waters that flow every day of the year and wetlands that are permanently flooded.NRDC performed GIS analysis […]
• Trump’s New “Waters Of The U.S.” Proposal Takes Sledgehammer To Clean Water Act
  Today, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers announced a revised proposal that would gut bedrock Clean Water Act protections for nearly all wetlands and streams by drastically narrowing what waterways will be considered “Waters of the United States.” The proposal goes much farther than the initial proposed rule issued in November, […]
• Noisy Jobs Report Offers Little Comfort for Jobseekers Across Stumbling Economy
  Today’s jobs report shows the economy added 162,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. Job gains averaged just 31,000 per month over the past year and labor force participation remains near recent lows at 61.6%. Today’s noisy report offers little guidance for policymakers navigating the difficult waters of persistent inflation […]
• Federal Judge Blocks Trump EPA’s Efforts to Attack Clean Air Waivers
  Yesterday, a federal judge granted California a preliminary injunction blocking EPA’s actions targeting four Clean Air Act preemption waivers previously granted to California.Senior U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell also denied EPA’s motion to dismiss the case.The preliminary injunction ordered EPA to “restore the status quo” before announcing the reclassification of four clean air waivers. EPA […]
• Nepal’s catastrophic floods must be a wake-up call on climate action as death toll passes 1,000
  The catastrophic floods in Nepal are a stark warning of what a hotter world will mean for communities on the climate frontline and why governments and donors must invest now in climate resilience, adaptation and disaster preparedness, rather than waiting for the next disaster to strike, Oxfam has warned.A week after the devastating floods, rescuers […]