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![A black smoke cloud can be seen in the distance on a sunny day. The focus shows a residential street with cars, two-story houses, powerlines, and trees without leaves.]()
![A black smoke cloud can be seen in the distance on a sunny day. The focus shows a residential street with cars, two-story houses, powerlines, and trees without leaves.]()
Can you tell if a ‘bomb train’ is coming to your town? It’s complicated.
In the wake of the Ohio train derailment, towns wonder how to avoid same fate.
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![REI logo in white]()
REI will ban ‘forever chemicals’ from clothes and cookware in 2024
The announcement is “yet another nail in the coffin for PFAS.”
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![A damaged single story house with its front porch bent lies in a forested area in Eastern Kentucky after flooding in July 2022]()
![A damaged single story house with its front porch bent lies in a forested area in Eastern Kentucky after flooding in July 2022]()
A report on flood-ravaged communities in eastern Kentucky asks: What is the real cost of rebuilding?
The answer: try at least $500 million.
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![Construction equipment works on derailed trains. There is snow on the ground and bare trees in the background.]()
![Construction equipment works on derailed trains. There is snow on the ground and bare trees in the background.]()
The train derailment in Ohio was a disaster waiting to happen
Trains carry hazardous chemicals everyday. They're also dangerously unregulated.
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![Red road sign with symbol for gasoline and an arrow pointing left next to blue road sign with symbol of Earth and arrow pointing right]()
![Red road sign with symbol for gasoline and an arrow pointing left next to blue road sign with symbol of Earth and arrow pointing right]()
Why are BP, Shell, and Exxon suddenly backing off their climate promises?
As oil giants rake in record-breaking profits, they have begun tapping the breaks on much-publicized initiatives.
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![Enormous plume of black smoke billowing up into the sky behind houses on a residential street]()
![Enormous plume of black smoke billowing up into the sky behind houses on a residential street]()
‘This is absurd’: Train cars that derailed in Ohio were labeled non-hazardous
Ohio governor calls on Congress to investigate how that could happen.
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![Amazon sphere and a skyscraper]()
Global corporations’ climate pledges are ‘misleading,’ not credible
Independent analysis finds major flaws with 24 companies’ “net-zero” promises.
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![Police in riot gear arrest environmental activists at the Line 3 pipeline pumping station near the Itasca State Park, Minnesota on June 7, 2021.]()
![Police in riot gear arrest environmental activists at the Line 3 pipeline pumping station near the Itasca State Park, Minnesota on June 7, 2021.]()
Documents show how a pipeline company paid Minnesota millions to police protests
From riot gear to PR to Dairy Queen, records detail every expense Enbridge reimbursed after the Line 3 protests.
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![Collage: broken cell phone, screwdriver and tweezers, blueprint of cell phone, IBM, Apple, and Google logos, and Governor Kathy Hochul signing a document]()
![Collage: broken cell phone, screwdriver and tweezers, blueprint of cell phone, IBM, Apple, and Google logos, and Governor Kathy Hochul signing a document]()
How Big Tech rewrote the nation’s first cell phone repair law
Documents reveal tech lobbyists revised a right-to-repair bill before New York's governor signed it.
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![Hand holding gavel, with a shadow beneath of a hand holding a gas pump]()
![Hand holding gavel, with a shadow beneath of a hand holding a gas pump]()
How the Supreme Court could finally force Big Oil to face trial
Dozens of cities and states sued oil giants for deceiving the public. The Supreme Court could soon break these cases out of limbo.
