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April 21, 2016
By: Elizabeth Ouzts and John Rumpler, Environment America
April 21, 2016
Today the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 56-42, rejected a move by Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) to block the Obama administration's landmark Clean Water Rule. Meanwhile yesterday, more than two dozen senators led by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) introduced a comprehensive package to protect our drinking water from lead and other health threats.
April 21, 2016
By: National Farmers Union
April 21, 2016
After several years of proactively limiting farmers’ basic rights and protections, Congress appeared poised to finally let the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) implement a provision included in the 2008 Farm Bill to provide needed marketplace protections to contract farmers.
April 21, 2016
By: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes
April 21, 2016
Over 2,000 retirees and Teamsters from 20 states rallied in front of the U.S.
April 21, 2016
By: Keith C. Burris, Toledo Blade
April 21, 2016
A friend said: “I think it’s a shame presidential campaigns turn on independents. I don’t get the independents.
April 21, 2016
By: Fatima Hussein, Cincinnati Enquirer
April 21, 2016
A West Chester widow stood in front of a sea of gray-haired retirees, mostly men, some with walkers and others wheeling oxygen tanks, who traveled across the country to demand what was promised to them.
Prepared to rally against what could be the biggest cut to the largest multi-employer pension fund in U.S. history, retired Teamsters exited bus after bus that pulled up to Capitol Hill's Western Lawn on a warm Thursday morning.