by Isabel Miller | Apr 19, 2022 | Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare
MILWAUKEE — Duane “Dodge” Waubanascum, once an amateur boxer from the Oneida Nation who won two Golden Glove titles in the 1970s, stands in the back of a room watching a group of fellow Native American Elders participate in a boxing class. “If you...
by Isabel Miller | Feb 28, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday considered an Obama administration regulation to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. Coal companies and several Republican states, led by West Virginia, want to limit the Clean Power Plan from 2015 that never...
by Isabel Miller | Feb 10, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — New York is slated to receive nearly $70 million to plug thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells scattered across the state as the Biden administration begins distributing funds from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. The infrastructure...
by Isabel Miller | Jan 26, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Instead of sleeping in on Saturday morning, over a hundred volunteers turned to a day of action in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Volunteers donned red gloves and headed into Pope Branch Park to collect trash––from plastic bottles to...
by Isabel Miller | Jan 20, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Democrat lawmakers said President Joe Biden is not doing enough to stop offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico during a House subcommittee meeting Thursday. The criticism came during a House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources session, which...