Study Confirms World’s Coastal Cities Unsavable If We Don’t Slash Carbon Pollution

This latest research from the journal Nature underscores that what the nation and the world do in the next decade or two will determine whether or not cities like Miami, Boston, New York, or New Orleans have any plausible chance to survive by 2100...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/31/3765266/coastal-cites-carbon-pollution/

Elizabeth Warren Accuses Banks Of Lying

On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accusing banks of lying about the pending rule requiring financial advisers to put clients’ interests ahead of their own, thus potentially violating securities laws...
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/31/3765249/warren-banks-fiduciary-standard/

6 Ways to Reform Our Corrupt Financial System

We must tame the growth of wealth among the top 1 percent and establish rules and institutions that ensure security and opportunity for the middle class...
http://www.alternet.org/books/6-ways-reform-our-corrupt-financial-system

Millions Of Americans Are Living In Areas That Are At Risk From Human-Caused Earthquakes

Six states are particularly at risk from human-caused earthquakes, according to the USGS...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/28/3763910/usgs-maps-earthquake-risk-fracking/

Mohamed El-Erian On The Next Crash (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Mohamed El-Erian has overseen the investment of billions, trillons of dollars. Now he’s looking out on the global economy and sees trouble. Since the crash of ’08, central banks like the Fed have propped things up. Political leaders have failed to lead on underlying problems. And soon, says El-Erian, things are going to have to be really fixed or fall apart. Infrastructure, inequality, education. Fix them or watch out, he says. This hour On Point: Mohamed El-Erain on the road ahead right now. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/16/economic-market-crash-prediction

Toxic chemical found in upstate New York's water

https://youtu.be/lFVoBaeGvVA

Portland Is Suing Monsanto Over Toxic Chemical Pollution

"Monsanto profited from selling PCBs for decades and needs to take responsibility for cleaning up after the mess it created."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/17/3761342/west-coast-cities-monsanto-lawsuit/

Our Four-Decade Antitrust Experiment Has Failed

We'd be better off returning to an older, cruder rule: ensuring that there are plenty of competitors in every market and refusing to allow any single company to become too dominant...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/our-four-decade-antitrust-experiment-has-failed

Who’s Regulating For-Profit Schools? Execs From For-Profit Colleges

And many of them come from schools that have been under investigation...
https://www.propublica.org/article/whos-regulating-for-profit-schools-execs-from-for-profit-colleges

Robert Reich: Dear GOP Establishment, Brace for a Painful Reckoning With the Reality You Created | Alternet

Republican politicians in particular have descended into the muck of bigotry, hatefulness and lies...
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/robert-reich-dear-gop-establishment-brace-reckoning-reality-you-created

Krugman: This Presidential Election Is an Up or Down Vote on the Survival of Humanity

The Republican Party has somehow managed to get even more destructive in eight years...
http://www.alternet.org/environment/krugman-presidential-election-or-down-vote-survival-humanity

Real Time with Bill Maher: Mark Ruffalo - The Whole Nation is Flint (HBO)

Waterdefense.org founder and "Spotlight" actor Mark Ruffalo calls California's reputation as an environmentally progressive state into question on the February 26, 2016 episode of Real Time...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/gWcuYn4gQZ4

Rubio Attacked Trump For Running a 'Fake School.' But There's Just One Problem. | ThinkProgress

Instead of encouraging the government to investigate the for-profit college chain, Rubio asked for leniency in a letter to the U.S. Department of Education in the summer of 2014. The letter, which was obtained by Bloomberg Politics, read, in part, “While I commend the Department’s desire to protect our nation’s students from fraudulent and malicious activity by any institution of higher education, regardless of tax status, I believe the Department can and should demonstrate leniency as long as Corinthian Colleges, Inc. continues to expeditiously and earnestly cooperate by providing the documents requested.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2016/02/26/3754140/rubio-trump-for-profit-college/

Wisconsin GOP Invites Debt Collectors To File More Lawsuits Against Consumers

People who make money collecting debts in Wisconsin are about to get a big favor from their government. A law sitting on Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) desk this week would make it much easier and much less risky for debt collectors to go after consumers in court, and much harder to prove that any given collection effort is bogus...
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/02/24/3753102/wisconsin-debt-collector-lawsuits/

How an Army of Pharma Lobbyists in Washington Have Locked in One of the Biggest Corporate Ripoff Schemes in America

Pharma is creaming tens of billions out of the federal government in a variety of schemes...
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/how-army-pharma-lobbyists-washington-have-locked-one-biggest-corporate-ripoff

Who is Killing American Manufacturing?

"They should shouting from rooftops, “No TPP!” For the love of American manufacturing, they should be yelling bloody murder."
http://www.industryweek.com/workforce/who-killing-american-manufacturing

It’s Official, The Government Only Works For The Wealthy

In America today, we have too many people going hungry, too many people living on the streets, and too many people who don’t know how they’re going to pay their medical bills. This isn’t the result of a lack of leadership, it’s the result of bad leadership. Republicans in America have worked very hard to create these problems just so they can give a few more handouts to the already-wealthy.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/p25Gk2sZIbs

Lawmakers Call For An Investigation Into Shell’s Climate Policies

Three Democratic lawmakers have sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for an investigation into whether Royal Dutch Shell knowingly misled the public about the dangers of climate change...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/19/3751279/shell-climate-investigation/

Peruvian Oil Spill Prompts Water Emergency For Thousands

Peru’s General Directorate of Environmental Health issued the water quality emergency Wednesday, more than three weeks after the first rupture was reported on January 25. The second spill, which came from a different section of the same pipeline, took place on February 3, further extending plumes of oil and affecting the livelihood of communities that rely on fishing and agriculture...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/19/3751281/oil-spill-in-the-amazon/

Hightower: Big Pharma Identified 7,000 Govt Officials They Need to Control to Run Their Price Gouging Operation

The industry's spending millions to protect you from public officials who might stop them from overcharging you...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/hightower-big-pharma-identified-7000-govt-officials-they-need-control-run-their