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Wyoming has shelved a state-funded project to measure water use in the Green River and Little Snake River basins after it could not get enough data to create a basin-wide estimate of water lost during irrigation. At a meeting in the Cowboy State capitol of Cheyenne last month, members of the Wyoming Water Development Commission […]

More than three decades after groundwater treatment began, LLNL provides no estimate of how much contamination remains.

The post Cleanup Without an End Date: What LLNL’s 2025 Groundwater Report Leaves Unanswered appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

Join Tri-Valley CAREs on Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. for a neighborhood walking tour exploring the history of groundwater contamination and cleanup near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The post Beyond the Fence: Join Tri-Valley CAREs for a Walking Tour of Livermore Lab’s Off-Site Contamination and Cleanup appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack. Hi everyone! Welcome back to California Wire. Last Thursday, I took the train up to Sacramento to participate in a panel at the California Energy Storage…

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has forged a global reputation as a leader of the left. He’s also fighting for his political life after a

In 1939, the 25¢ paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics, and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?

After halting construction on offshore wind farms and canceling leases for future projects, the Trump administration just took another step to erode America’s troubled offshore wind industry. The Interior Department wants to reevaluate a key approval for Revolution Wind — a $6.2 billion project that is already…

Join Tri-Valley CAREs on Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. for a neighborhood walking tour exploring the history of groundwater contamination and cleanup near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The post Más Allá de la Cerca: Acompañe a Tri-Valley CAREs en un Recorrido a Pie Para Conocer la Contaminación Fuera del Recinto del Laboratorio de Livermore y las Labores de Limpieza appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

Socialism is on the march, and capitalism’s defenders are on the ropes. Shawn Gude’s American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs, a biography of the most prominent socialist agitator in American history, could hardly be more timely.

On September 24, the University of Minnesota’s President Rebecca Cunningham announced $225 million in budget cuts, or 12-15% cuts across departments.

The post “Painful and Shocking”: Campus Unions Slam University of Minnesota’s Proposed Budget Cuts appeared first on Workday Magazine.

The stability of Vladimir Putin’s rule has long relied on encouraging citizens to ignore politics. But last month’s wartime elections instead saw a different approach, staging popular support for a further centralization of power.

In 1908, on one of his five presidential runs, legendary socialist organizer Eugene Debs embarked on a whirlwind tour across the country on his own train, the Red Special. His mission: spread the socialist gospel to any American who would hear him out.

Federal agents search a lawmaker's home, courts scrutinize ICE detention, and an off-duty officer faces charges. ICEbreaker News, October 13.

Voters will have a chance to pick their utility regulators in nine states this November. But Georgia is one of the only states that could flip party control of its public utility commission, an often overlooked institution that determines how much people’s energy bills will rise. Last year, as energy affordability…

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A four-hour legislative committee hearing in June, punctuated by applause and anger, offered a window into the growing backlash against data centers. The prospect of unchecked development has galvanized a cross-section of Ohioans, urban and rural, Democrat and Republican, alarmed about the spread of the giant computing facilities. Residents are demanding that local governments […]

Three years ago, hydrogen seemed poised for a long-awaited breakthrough. The Biden administration announced $7 billion in federal funding for seven hubs to produce the fuel across the country, and Pennsylvania was set to be a major player in the emerging industry.  Hydrogen has long been heralded as a potential skeleton key to emission reductions: […]

Qcells , one of the most prolific solar manufacturers operating in the U.S., is staking a claim on the next generation of solar power. Laboratory scientists have established that solar panels convert sunlight to electricity with much higher efficiency if traditional silicon cells are paired with layers of…

More than two years ago, courageous Awajún and Wampis survivors and women defenders broke the silence.

The post Awajún and Wampis Women Demand Real Action for Their Girls first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Larry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and to the men who used to read and write them?

Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. In October 2022, just before the