New York's legislature just passed the first state-level moratorium on hyperscale datacenter construction. Governor Hochul will decide if it becomes law — and whether democratic governments still have the power to say no to Big Tech's energy demands.
The administration is using emergency wartime authority to send $700 million to coal plants already on the industry's closure lists. The law was never designed for this — and that's precisely why it was chosen.
Beyond Plastics attached GPS trackers to Starbucks cups labeled 'widely recyclable' and dropped them in in-store bins. Not one reached a recycling facility. The label was issued by an industry-funded group — and Starbucks called it a 'big milestone.'
The EPA's proposed rollback of Biden-era PFAS drinking water limits doesn't dispute the science linking forever chemicals to cancer. It simply removes the legal requirement to act on that science — and the industry that spent decades causing the contamination spent years lobbying for exactly this ou
In Houston's most polluted and most heavily immigrant neighborhoods, ICE raids, chemical spills, catastrophic floods, and an inaccessible healthcare system have converged into a single, compounding crisis. For hundreds of thousands of residents, survival mode has become the permanent condition — by
The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage Who would you rate as the world’s most unlikeable tech tycoon? Elon Musk is obviously a major contender. The digital warlord Palmer Luckey is also up there. While there’s a lot of competit
Qualified immunity is a Supreme Court-created doctrine that shields police officers from civil lawsuits even when they violate constitutional rights — unless the victim can find a prior case with nearly identical facts.
Since ChatGPT's release, "excellent" grades in AI-compatible courses have risen 30% at one selective university. The deeper problem is that higher education built a credentialing system it can no longer defend.
Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay active player, has died at 47. Twelve years after his historic coming out, not one active male player in the four major North American professional leagues has followed — and the institutions that celebrated him have done little to change the conditions that
A decade after Standing Rock, nine Sioux Nation groups have halted a graphite drilling project near a recognized ceremonial site using proactive litigation — a legal strategy that pipeline opponents in the same state are now studying closely.
The term 'food desert' suggests a natural void. Food apartheid names the system that created it — and identifies who profits from keeping it in place.
OpenAI detected the Tumbler Ridge shooter's account, suspended it, and then decided — by its own internal standard, reviewed by no one — that the threat didn't require a call to police. Eight people died. The real failure isn't the calibration. It's that a private company was making this call at all
From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition Zappa Montag steps outside his home to a thicket of redwoods, Pacific madrones and oak trees. Dozens of fruit trees dot the 76 hectares (189 acres), along with a large garden replete with squash, cu
From Texas Republicans to California teachers, communities across the U.S. are organizing against an unregulated AI datacenter boom — and the bipartisan coalition forming around local water, power, and autonomy is one the industry wasn't built to handle.
Environmental racism describes how pollution and toxic waste are systematically concentrated in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities — a pattern created by policy, not accident.
James Broadnax has spent more than 16 years on Texas death row after prosecutors used his rap lyrics to prove 'future dangerousness.' The practice has a name, a pattern, and an almost exclusively Black target list.