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Good things are happening! The Feds want to charge you just two bucks for lots of meds, the Northwest’s biggest natural gas supplier gets sued over climate change, rural hospitals buck a troubling trend, and fast fashion has to slow down its waste.

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The U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a preliminary list of over 100 drugs that could cost no more than $2 for a month’s supply for Medicare recipients. The announcement is a big step forward in the federal government’s yearslong effort to negotiate drug prices under Medicare, an effort that Big Pharma has pulled out all the stops to try to quash.