Jessica Corbett - Archive

Fears of Bolsonaro’s Threat to the Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55% By Jessica Corbett, May 11, 2020
As Flint Water Crisis Enters Sixth Year, ‘Astounding’ Report Exposes Lies of Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder and Other Officials By Jessica Corbett, April 20, 2020
Big Brother in the Age of Coronavirus: 100+ Groups Warn Against Exploiting Pandemic to Permanently Expand Surveillance State By Jessica Corbett, April 05, 2020
Trump’s Final Plan to Open Treasured Public Lands in Utah Called ‘Sellout’ to Big Oil By Jessica Corbett, February 07, 2020
‘Scale of this Failure Has No Precedent’: Scientists Say Hot Ocean ‘Blob’ Killed One Million Seabirds By Jessica Corbett, January 20, 2020
‘An Insanely Bad Move’: Experts Sound Alarm as Trump’s Nuclear Safety Agency Weighs Rollback of Plant Inspections By Jessica Corbett, July 19, 2019
Watchdog Groups Call on Congress and Federal Regulators to Impose Moratorium on Facebook’s Proposed Cryptocurrency By Jessica Corbett, July 04, 2019
‘Criminalizing Compassion’: Trial Begins for Humanitarian Facing 20 Years in Prison for Giving Water to Migrants in Arizona Desert By Jessica Corbett, May 31, 2019
‘Unfathomable Evil Recognizing Unfathomable Evil’: Trump’s Possible Pardons of War Criminals Provoke Outrage By Jessica Corbett, May 21, 2019
North Korea Warns ‘Gangster-Like’ Tactics of Bolton and Pompeo Undermining Nuclear Talks By Jessica Corbett, March 17, 2019
‘Yiiiiikes’: John Bolton Threatens to Send Venezuela’s Maduro to Offshore US Prison at Guantánamo By Jessica Corbett, February 02, 2019
Leaked Child Detention Memo: Traumatize Migrant Children, Expedite Deportations: U.S. Senator Merkley Calls for FBI Perjury Probe into Homeland Secretary Nielsen By Jessica Corbett, January 22, 2019
Report on President’s Environmental Record so Far ‘Reminds Us that Trump Soap Opera Has Dire Real-World Consequences’ By Jessica Corbett, December 29, 2018
In Another Blow to Keystone XL, Judge Rules TransCanada Can’t Conduct Pre-Construction Work By Jessica Corbett, December 09, 2018
Calling for ‘Corridor of Life and Culture,’ in The Amazon: Indigenous Groups Propose Creation of Largest Protected Area on Earth By Jessica Corbett, November 22, 2018
Lawsuit Charges Trump Organization a ‘Racketeering Enterprise That Defrauded Thousands of People for Years’ By Jessica Corbett, October 31, 2018
Gorbachev: Trump Ditching Nuclear Treaty with Russia Poses ‘Dire Threat to Peace’ By Jessica Corbett, October 29, 2018
Denouncing ‘Wanton Disregard for Congress and the American People,’ Dems Call on Ajit Pai to Come Clean About False FCC Cyberattack By Jessica Corbett, August 15, 2018
‘Terrifying’: Poll Shows 43% of Republicans Think Trump Should Have Power to Shutter Mainstream News Outlets for ‘Bad Behavior’ By Jessica Corbett, August 09, 2018
Earth’s Carbon Concentrations Have Soared to Levels Not Seen in 800,000 Years By Jessica Corbett, August 05, 2018
With “Mountainous” Evidence on Plaintiffs’ Side, Hundreds of Cancer Cases Against Monsanto Get Green Light By Jessica Corbett, July 12, 2018
As Documents Reveal ‘Pervasive Abuse’ of Immigrant Children Under Obama, Fears It’s Even Worse Under Trump By Jessica Corbett, May 24, 2018
As CO2 Levels Soar Past ‘Troubling’ 410 ppm Threshold, Trump Kills NASA Carbon Monitoring Program By Jessica Corbett, May 13, 2018
‘A Dangerous Low’: Trump Ignores Deadline for Reporting Civilians Killed by US Drone Attacks By Jessica Corbett, May 03, 2018
More Than 100 Mayors Sign Open Internet Pledge as FCC’s Net Neutrality Repeal Set to Take Effect By Jessica Corbett, April 28, 2018
On World Wide Web’s 29th Birthday, Its Inventor Warns of Threats to Digital Rights By Jessica Corbett, March 13, 2018
Analysis: Harvey Triggered Release of Nearly a Million Pounds of Toxic Air Pollutants By Jessica Corbett, September 02, 2017
Court Throws Out Blackwater Guards’ Sentences for 2007 Baghdad Massacre By Jessica Corbett, August 06, 2017
Docs Reveal Monsanto’s Attempts to Influence Reports About Roundup By Jessica Corbett, August 03, 2017