Climate Accountability
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![Oil well and pump jacks in the City of Signal Hill with the City of Long Beach in the background.]()
![Oil well and pump jacks in the City of Signal Hill with the City of Long Beach in the background.]()
California passed a milestone law to stop neighborhood drilling. Now Big Oil has launched its counterattack.
A new fossil fuel-sponsored ballot initiative could reverse a major environmental justice victory.
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![Black is oil seen in and around a creek and on top of brown, dry grass.]()
![Black is oil seen in and around a creek and on top of brown, dry grass.]()
Cleanup is underway for the US’s second-largest tar sands oil spill. Experts say it’ll be harder than past leaks.
It's all about the kind of oil that gets spilled.
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![an aerial image shows flood damage in apartment complex in Orlando Florida after Hurricane Ian in September, 2022.]()
![an aerial image shows flood damage in apartment complex in Orlando Florida after Hurricane Ian in September, 2022.]()
After Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans fled to Florida. Then Ian happened.
The state's affordable housing crisis has made it almost impossible for storm victims to get back on their feet.
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New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals
"The people there are tired of being studied. We need to take action.”
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![Amazon packages on a conveyor belt]()
![Amazon packages on a conveyor belt]()
Amazon’s plastic packaging waste grew 18% in 2021, report says
The retail giant says it generated 214 million pounds of plastic waste last year. An advocacy group says it produced three times as much.
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![Collage: concentrated animal feeding operation buildings; aerial image of Laketown, Wisconsin; vintage pig illustrations]()
![Collage: concentrated animal feeding operation buildings; aerial image of Laketown, Wisconsin; vintage pig illustrations]()
A tiny Wisconsin town tried to stop pollution from factory farms. Then it got sued.
"This is standard operating procedure for the Big Ag boys."
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Houston is just the latest Texas city to boil water for safety
The infrastructure woes behind a water failure
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![Someone wearing a yellow rain jacket walks in the woods]()
![Someone wearing a yellow rain jacket walks in the woods]()
As the outdoor industry ditches ‘forever chemicals,’ REI lags behind
Here are some of the other brands that have promised to phase out PFAS.
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![A lake in the shape of an airplane in the middle of untouched nature, illustrating the issue of sustainable travel]()
![A lake in the shape of an airplane in the middle of untouched nature, illustrating the issue of sustainable travel]()
Planning your 2023 travel? Skip these places in order to save them.
With environmental and cultural strains, places like Lake Tahoe could use a break
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![Collage: world map ripping in half in the middle; United States and European Union flags; 100 U.S. dollar bill and Euro bill; COP27 logo]()
![Collage: world map ripping in half in the middle; United States and European Union flags; 100 U.S. dollar bill and Euro bill; COP27 logo]()
Inside the COP27 fight to get wealthy nations to pay climate reparations
How developing countries' 30-year battle for "loss and damage" funding culminated in a new agreement in Egypt.
