by Jane Richey | May 30, 2013 | Agenda 21, Politics
Wal-Mart has agreed to pay $81.6 million for violating what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls “environmental crimes,” concluding a decades-long investigation by the agency and the FBI. Wal-Mart settled with the EPA and the Justice Department in three...
by Jane Richey | May 30, 2013 | Agenda 21
Ernest Moniz, the nation’s new Energy Secretary, said climate change is “not debatable” in one of his first speeches on the job. “I’m not here to debate what’s not debatable,” Moniz said at the White House Leadership Summit on Women, Climate and Energy on...
by Jane Richey | May 30, 2013 | Health Care, Politics
A record 72,600,000 were enrolled in Medicaid for at least one month in fiscal 2012, up from 71,700,000 in fiscal 2011, according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), which provides an annual report to Congress on Medicaid and the...