Florida is among the US states that still allows the death penalty which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing Delaware’s ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish, and destroying once pristine coastal environments.

Federal law requires the repatriation of human remains yet at least five major institutions in Connecticut including Yale have failed to do it.

Georgia has some of the weakest gun laws in the country and a Shoot First law that allows a person to kill another in a public area, even when they can safely walk away from the danger.

Racism, xenophobia, and related discrimination exist in all society and harms the lives of this who endure it and society as a whole.

Roughly 85% of Connecticut homes burn fossil fuels for heating with oil, methane, and propane combined.

Georgia is the epicenter in attacks on voting rights and gerrymandering against equal voting.

Controversial changes to Florida school curricula and fear of critical race theory serve to erase the truth of Black history from schools.

In 2024 Alabama put to death an inmate using nitrogen hypoxia, a practice that isn’t allowed for dogs.