Tribes Reach $590M Opioid Settlement with J. & J. and

[ad_1] Faced with disproportionately high addiction and death rates during the opioid epidemic, hundreds of Native American tribes reached a $590 million tentative settlement Tuesday with Johnson & Johnson and the nation’s three largest drug distributors. A total of $665 million will be paid out to the tribes, with a $75 million settlement between distributors …

Redwood Forest in California Returned to Indigenous Tribes

[ad_1] Hidden in Northern California’s Mendocino County, the 523-acre rugged forest is filled with ghostly stumps of ancient alder trees harvested during a logging that wiped out more than 90 percent of West Coast species. But the nearly 200 acres are still dense with old redwoods freed from logging. The land was a hunting, fishing …