COMMENTARY By Ben Jealous   It was February 14. But what nearly 400 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees got that day were not Valentines. They were pink slips.   The firings touched critical roles in EPA offices across the country, including dozens of scientists at the agency’s Chicago office.    The American people did not vote ...

By Ben Jealous   More than one million Americans told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week that they aren’t willing to wait any longer.   Their comments insisting that EPA move forward quickly to cut carbon pollution from new and existing coal and natural gas-burning power plants were delivered in person in Washington by ...