After the multi-million-dollar Flint Water Settlement, lawyers have their sights set on new targets. A trial in an eastern Michigan federal court seeks to pin additional blame for the water contamination on two companies that conducted testing after the contamination was already confirmed. ...
The low recycling rates for plastics in the United States obscure the fact that the recycling industry has made significant environmental strides recovering certain types of plastics and sending them back into the manufacturing stream. At issue is that “plastics” is an umbrella term for a ...
While driving in my hometown in Southern California in mid-May, my husband pointed across the way and asked, “Is that a prison?” to which I shot back, “No, that’s my high school!” When I started high school, mine was the only one in our rapidly growing city; it had around 3,500 ...
Over one last cup of coffee in Athens, Greece, it became clear they've gone too far. The shameless Supreme Court will pay for these days of taking constitutional rights away from women and girls. I had a long journey home. So did the mythical king Odysseus, who found Ithaca completely ...
Sex registries are in the news again thanks to a couple of high-profile child sex abuse cases. Keeping track of ex-cons who have sexually preyed on others sounds like a good idea. But do these registries really help keep us safe? Under a 2006 federal law, each state, the District of Columbia, ...
The price of gasoline is not Joe Biden's fault, nor did it break records. Adjusted for inflation, it was higher in 2008 when Republican George W. Bush was president. And that wasn't Bush's fault, either. We don't have to like today's inflation, but that problem, too, is not Biden's doing. ...
