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Farmers from Thailand and Europe met to exchange on the dangers of the EU-Thailand Free Trade Agreement, which threatens to be concluded by the end of the year.

The post ECVC and Assembly of the Poor stand together against EU-Thai Free Trade Agreement appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

Amid protests in France, police unions are pushing for wage hikes and special legal privileges to cash in on the political capital they’ve built under Emmanuel Macron’s rule.

Ed Newman was attending a community meeting in Athens, Ohio, when he met Milena Miller, a home health aide who had spotted a trend among her clients. After returning home from a hospital stay, patients would use a piece of at-home medical equipment for only a few weeks or months. Others would then spend several […]

The post Medical Equipment Miracles from Ohio’s Churches Storage Space  appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

If you’ve ever looked for a homegrown replacement for the imported olive, canola and palm oils that typically fill grocery store aisles and home kitchens, there’s a small but growing alternative. A network of sustainability enthusiasts is now making oil from a resource native to Pennsylvania, one of the fastest-growing hubs for this production—bitternut hickory […]

Nobody really knows how much power the data center boom will need — and that’s putting utilities in a tough spot. If they underinvest in power plants and the grid, economic growth and energy reliability will suffer. But if they overinvest, Americans may pay for infrastructure nobody needs. One way to blunt these…

As a blue wave washed over Election Day, ballot measures across the country showed voters strongly support environmental protection, with notable early outcomes in California and Colorado.  Democrats swept Congress on Tuesday, winning control of both houses with notable victories in Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Michigan and Maine.  Results, which are still being tallied Wednesday, […]

This story was updated on Nov. 6, 2026 to include additional information from the Alabama Public Service Commission. On a busy election day, the Alabama Public Service Commission requested that Alabama Power voluntarily stop billing customers, effective immediately, for television commercials and other ads it buys to promote various aspects of its business. Alabama Power […]

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NY-17: Last in a series on the environmental stakes behind one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races. Before midnight, and before any official body had called the race, Republican incumbent Mike Lawler conceded to Democratic challenger Cait Conley in New York’s 17th Congressional District. Conley flipped the closely watched toss-up seat, denying Lawler […]

Democrats’ historic sweep of Texas on Tuesday raises new possibilities of environmental reform after more than 30 years of Republican rule in the home of the nation’s oil and gas industry. That includes opportunities to cement safeguards for data center development, lower energy costs and, over time, appoint new commissioners to the state’s regulatory agencies […]

An international team of lawyers on Wednesday filed a coordinated battery of lawsuits against JBS, the world’s largest meat company, and its financiers, accusing them of money laundering in connection with the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The 14 legal actions, filed in four European jurisdictions, accuse JBS and its affiliated banks, asset managers, accountants […]

Georgia voters have broken the Republican grip on the state’s energy regulator, giving Democrats control of the Public Service Commission for the first time in 30 years.  Their victories come amid growing frustration over rising electricity bills, a data center buildout and calls for greater accountability from Georgia Power. On Tuesday, Democrat Peter Hubbard was […]

The top story from Tuesday’s elections is clear: Democrats won big-time on the national level, dominating U.S. Senate and House races across the country. And on the state level, clean energy could get a jolt from Democratic wins for state offices and utility commissions and new approved ballot measures. Here’s a…

Democratic voters have long sided with socialists on policy but feared they were a liability in elections. Last night’s results finally proved that wrong.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article used a misleading figure that overstated the contribution of Annie Andrews’ vote to her victory. We incorrectly stated that Andrews would have won only 44% of the state’s popular vote without rural voters. In deep red South Carolina, Annie Andrews will be the first Democrat Senator in three […]

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Amazon Watch will work with Amazonian partners and allies to ensure that the future of the rainforest and her peoples are squarely on the agenda of the new U.S. Congress.

The post Can the Blue Wave Help Keep the Amazon Green? first appeared on Amazon Watch.

This story was produced in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Amid a spate of historic political upsets across Texas, voters in the industrial port city of Corpus Christi on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a citizen-led petition to impose steep fees for water use on the […]

Though still a small minority, socialists will soon have more members in Congress than they ever have before. A socialist caucus can help them build their power.

Seventy years ago today, Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian uprising that had electrified Eastern Europe. Latter-day conservative narratives distort the true history of the 1956 revolution and the crucial role of workers’ councils in driving it forward.

Zohran Mamdani understood something no one else did: most Donald Trump voters had their reasons for going for Trump, and those reasons were economic. Mamdani saw that, and he saw a path to winning them back. He gave it a name: affordability.