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Food banks are struggling to fill their shelves, and it’s not just supply chain issues
Climate change, inflation, and price gouging are also at play.
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![An aerial shot shows the Mississipi River at a tilt.]()
![An aerial shot shows the Mississipi River at a tilt.]()
Energy company cancels $2.5 billion oil export terminal in Louisiana
The project faced stiff opposition from residents, who argued it would have destroyed a historic slave burial site.
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![Chairman Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., prepare for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine “infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water and public lands,” in Dirksen Building on Thursday, June 24, 2021.]()
![Chairman Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., prepare for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine “infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water and public lands,” in Dirksen Building on Thursday, June 24, 2021.]()
Manchin and Cortez Masto kill chances of reforming outdated hardrock mining law
The nearly 150-year old law allows mining companies to extract resources like copper and lithium royalty-free.
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![Governor of West Virginia Jim Justice alongside a photo of coal]()
![Governor of West Virginia Jim Justice alongside a photo of coal]()
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice faces justice for coal crimes in Kentucky
Kentucky's newest strategy might stop coal barons from gaming the reclamation system.
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![Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico]()
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EPA restores water protections weakened under Trump
Smaller waterways and wetlands will be covered again under Clean Water Act.
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Public schools are failing students on climate change
A new book exposes systemic shortcomings in the way global warming is taught in America.
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![A man and woman ferry a dog down a flooded Sterling Road in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, on November 17, 2021.]()
![A man and woman ferry a dog down a flooded Sterling Road in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, on November 17, 2021.]()
‘Weather whiplash’ in the Pacific Northwest is a sign of what climate change has in store
Mudslides, evacuations, roads snapped in half: Floods hit Washington state and British Columbia.
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Fixing your iPhone is about to get a lot easier
By early 2022, customers will be able to buy replacement parts from Apple.
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Against all odds, the Paris Agreement is — kinda, sorta — working
The agreement's feeble enforcement measures are a feature, not a bug.
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![A laborer works on a water line in California. Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill is set to make environmental justice investments commonplace.]()
![A laborer works on a water line in California. Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill is set to make environmental justice investments commonplace.]()
Here’s how the bipartisan infrastructure deal could promote environmental justice
According to the White House, the new law earmarks $240 billion for environmental justice projects — the largest such investment in U.S. history.
