Global Tipping Points Report (Oct 13th 2025) Warns Earth Has Crossed Its First Threshold
Unsafe to Drink: Local Water Contamination Crises in U.S. Towns
Facts & Timeline Forever Chemicals (PFAS) in Small Towns:In Brockway, Pennsylvania, residents are battling well water contamination from PFAS — industrial chemicals that do not break down and are linked […]
Oil & Gas Pollution — 90,000+ Premature U.S. Deaths Annually
Facts & Timeline A study published in Science Advances (2025) estimates that air pollution from the entire life cycle of oil and gas (extraction, transport, refining, burning) causes approximately 91,000 […]
State of the Air 2025 — 156 Million Americans Exposed to Unhealthy Air
Facts & TimelineThe American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2025” report finds 156 million people (46% of the U.S. population) live in counties with failing grades for either ozone […]
Wildfire Smoke & Pollution — Cross-Border Health Effects
Facts & Timeline In 2025, wildfires across Canada and the western U.S. produced massive thick smoke plumes that drifted south and east into U.S. states, triggering air quality alerts across […]
Deportations Without Due Process
Key Facts & Recent Cases In U.S. immigration law, persons facing deportation do not have a guaranteed right to court-appointed counsel in most cases, because immigration courts are civil, not […]
The U.S. as Enforcer of International Human Rights
Key Facts & Historical Markers After World War I, the League of Nations was established in 1920 as the first international body aiming to prevent future wars and promote cooperation. […]
Abu Ghraib — U.S. Prisoner Abuse in Iraq
Key Facts & Historical Markers The Abu Ghraib prison scandal emerged in April 2004, when CBS News broadcast images of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees, provoking global outrage. (wikipedia.org) (ccrjustice.org) […]
Reports of Sexual Abuse within U.S. Military Ranks
While the Abu Ghraib scandal exposed abuse of foreign detainees, a broader and ongoing problem within U.S. military ranks involves sexual assault and rape of military personnel, especially women, by […]
Guantánamo Bay — Indefinite Detention
Key Facts & TimelineOpened: January 11, 2002, under President George W. Bush, to detain terrorism suspects captured during the “war on terror.” (Wikipedia)Design: U.S. established the base in Cuba as […]
Remembering 9/11
Key Facts & Timeline Date of attacks: September 11, 2001. Coordinated hijackings: 19 al-Qaeda operatives hijacked 4 commercial airliners. • American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World […]