Newsitem List

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released an interim report (see PDF) on September 26 on the department’s use of surveillance drones. The report said that FBI has been using drones with the same privacy rules it uses for manned aircraft....

The blockade is simple, but its implications profound. A thick steel chain across the only bridge entering the small town of Paso de la Reina, municipality of Santiago Jamiltepec of roughly 500 residents on Oaxaca’s southwestern coast, is attended daily by men and women who prevent the entry of anyone connected with a proposed hydroelectric dam project on the Rio Verde. And for four years that strategy has been successful....

Maestros que han estado defendiendo sus derechos laborales y la educación pública y gratuita fueron desalojados con lujo de violencia el 13 de septiembre ya ahora se reorganizan....

Tres periodistas de los medios libres recién detenidos refutan las acusaciones en su contra y defienden su trabajo....

Friday August 23 marked the end of the public comment period for the Department of Interior’s draft “fracking rule” (see PDF) on public lands. The rule, originally proposed by Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in May 2013, has three main components: it would require drillers to disclose the chemicals used in fracking on public lands; it would setup standards for well integrity to safeguard against groundwater contamination; and it would require drillers to have a plan in place to dea...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. On September 13, in a class-action lawsuit brought by the ACLU and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri, a federal district court told a Missouri college to end its unconstitutional program of requiring all of its students—irrespective of their course of study—to submit to suspicionless drug-testing....

Peña Nieto, with the collaboration of the media, the corporate class and the main political parties, may have been able to move his educational reform package through the legislative process with relative ease. Yet, when it comes to implementation, that is another matter....

According to an updated report released by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty on September 3 (see PDF), top 1% incomes in the United States grew by 31.4% from 2009 to 2012, while bottom 99% incomes grew only by 0.4% during the same time period....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on September 6 published a recovery plan for Alaska’s threatened southwest population of northern sea otters. The recovery plan, which spells out steps to avoid extinction and put the species on the road toward recovery, caps more than a decade of Center for Biological Diversity advocacy to win these otters full protection under the Endangered Species Act....

The Center for Biological Diversity launched federal litigation today challenging the Bureau of Land Management for failing to protect endangered species like the Karner blue butterfly and Indiana bat by properly assessing the risks posed to them by fracking on public land being leased for oil and gas production in a game reserve in southwestern Michigan....