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August 10, 2023
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Why the Court's decision to limit the EPA's power to regulate water access is yet another case of eroding the power of the other branches of government at the expense of Black and brown people.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert has written his last New York Times column, but I hope and expect he will stay in the debate. He lived up to the venerable injunction that journalists should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. We need his passion.
Richard Brodsky, a former New York Assemblyman, currently serving as a senior fellow at the national policy center Demos, has sent a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B.
After almost 18 years, a unique, compassionate voice and champion for the nameless, faceless downtrodden will be silenced. Bob Herbert wrote his last column for the New York Times on Friday March 25th. Who will replace him and become that voice for those who need one most?
Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic decline. So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries
But Richard Brodsky, a former long-time New York legislator and lawyer who has done battle with Indian Point on a range of issues, argued in an interview Tuesday that the NRC has been no tougher a regulator than the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies that allowed the
If you really want to improve the education of poor children, you have to get them away from learning environments that are smothered by poverty. One of the most powerful tools for improving the educational achievement of poor black and Hispanic public school students is, regrettably, seldom even
On March 4, Manhattan Federal Judge Loretta Preska upheld an NRC decision to let Indian Point operator Entergy use insulation that withstands fire for only 27 minutes.
Is Nuclear Power Worth The Risk? Worst-case scenarios unfold more frequently than we’d like to believe, which leads to two major questions regarding nuclear power that Americans have an obligation to answer. First, can a disaster comparable to the one in Japan happen here? The answer, of course, is