Eco-News Roundup: Thursday August 20

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.


Pay to Play: For the cost of medical fraud, we could pay for healthcare reform.

Dean 3G: Guess who’s got his own healthcare reform Rx? Howard Dean.

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em: New findings show antioxidants can fuel breast cancer. [National Geographic]

Next!: The public option may be breathing its last.

Small Screen: The McSteamy’s sex tape, hydrated by Fiji Water.

Wolf Woes: State of Idaho will allow a cull of 25% of its wolf population. [MongaBay]

 

BEFORE YOU CLICK AWAY!

Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently. We stand for justice and democracy. We reject false equivalence. We go after stories others don’t. We’re a nonprofit newsroom, because the kind of truth-telling investigations we do doesn’t happen under corporate ownership.

And the essential ingredient that makes all this possible? Readers like you.

It’s reader support that enables Mother Jones to devote the time and resources to report the facts that are too difficult, expensive, or inconvenient for other news outlets to uncover. Please help with a donation today if you can—even a few bucks will make a real difference. A monthly gift would be incredible.

payment methods

BEFORE YOU CLICK AWAY!

Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently. We stand for justice and democracy. We reject false equivalence. We go after stories others don’t. We’re a nonprofit newsroom, because the kind of truth-telling investigations we do doesn’t happen under corporate ownership.

And the essential ingredient that makes all this possible? Readers like you.

It’s reader support that enables Mother Jones to devote the time and resources to report the facts that are too difficult, expensive, or inconvenient for other news outlets to uncover. Please help with a donation today if you can—even a few bucks will make a real difference. A monthly gift would be incredible.

payment methods

We Recommend

Latest

Sign up for our free newsletter

Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Get our award-winning magazine

Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights.

Subscribe

Support our journalism

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

Donate