The mammoth Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) under secret negotiation between the United States and European Union is poised to slash the power of local governments to regulate toxins—from pesticides to fracking chemicals—the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) warned in a report released Tuesday. (pdf) is based on an analysis of the European […]

Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in “legitimating the environmental injustices of war,” a harrowing new scholarly report concludes. “During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US Department of Defense burned the majority of […]

The latest United Nations (UN) analysis of the climate pledges of world governments reveals the commitments are not enough to avert “climate catastrophe,” green groups warned on Friday. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and German State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth presented in Berlin on Friday their report (pdf) on the effects of 146 participating countries’ Intended […]

More than a year after firing Dr. Steven Salaita from a tenured faculty position for publishing personal tweets critical of Israel’s 2014 military assault on Gaza, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has agreed to settle the professor’s free speech and breach of contract lawsuits for nearly a million dollars. Announced Thursday by the […]

The ACLU and Planned Parenthood have filed a lawsuit against Indiana over its restrictive new abortion law, signed in March by Governor Mike Pence, which bans abortions in cases of fetal abnormalities and imposes a litany of other restrictions and requirements. The lawsuit (pdf), filed Thursday in U.S. district court by ACLU Indiana and the […]

Fast fashion e-tailer PrettyLittleThing has launched a breast cancer awareness collection in support of CoppaFeel!. The 23-piece capsule collection is in support of breast cancer awareness month and PrettyLittleThing will donate all sales to charity CoppaFeel! to help raise awareness of the importance of checking your breasts. The nightwear and lingerie collection features designs created […]

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by Amazon Polly Manfred Weber is chairman of the European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament. Iratxe García Pérez is president of the S&D Group. Dacian Cioloș is president of the Renew Europe Group. Ska Keller and Philippe Lamberts are co-presidents of Greens/European Free Alliance Group.  […]

For the thousands of businesses that rely on being able to shuttle digital information across the Channel, the waters are about to get very choppy. At the moment data flows pretty much unimpeded between EU countries because all are governed by the same rules, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But with the U.K. leaving, […]

Amid warnings that the proposed TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could undermine global attempts to rein in runaway climate change, new documents reveal that EU trade officials gave U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil access to confidential negotiating strategies considered too sensitive to be released to the European public. The documents, obtained by the Guardian, offer […]

Chanting “We will defend the constitution!” an estimated 50,000 people rallied in the Polish capital Warsaw on Saturday to denounce what they see as threats to democracy by the newly elected government. Demonstrations were held in other cities across Poland as well. As Bloomberg reports, the conservative, Jaroslaw Kaczynski-led Law and Justice Party, which gained […]