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![Two men manage a hos aboard a fire truck as another man looks on.]()
![Two men manage a hos aboard a fire truck as another man looks on.]()
Wisconsin cleanup shifts toxic PFAS burden to Alabama Black Belt
The 'father of environmental justice' says sending fluorinated firefighting foam to a landfill in the mostly poor, Black town of Emelle perpetuates racism.
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![illustration depicting abandoned nursing home with water damage, a window showing fallen power lines, and a lone wheelchair]()
![illustration depicting abandoned nursing home with water damage, a window showing fallen power lines, and a lone wheelchair]()
How Hurricane Ida turned a Louisiana nursing home into a living nightmare
For Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida, the storm was only the start of a deadly nightmare.
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![A collage of images featuring a young Black woman holding a selection of purple and pink flowers, two hands holding a handful of brown beans, images of the New York City skyline and urban garden plots, and a news article about environmental justice]()
![A collage of images featuring a young Black woman holding a selection of purple and pink flowers, two hands holding a handful of brown beans, images of the New York City skyline and urban garden plots, and a news article about environmental justice]()
Food justice advocates didn’t set out to save the climate. Their solutions are doing it anyway.
How New York's rich history of urban gardening connects food justice and climate mitigation.
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In California, climate chaos looms over prisons — and thousands of prisoners — in a lake bed
How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.
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Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them?
“We’re asking for something so simple. Something that could save so many lives.”
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![An oil pumpjack near a field of wind turbines.]()
![An oil pumpjack near a field of wind turbines.]()
Scientists lay out a sweeping roadmap for transitioning the US off fossil fuels
A 600-plus-page report from the National Academies of Science includes 80 recommendations for how the U.S. can achieve its target of net-zero emissions by 2050.
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![Collage of a house protected by a square border cut from a hundred dollar bill. Outside the border are trees on a fiery red background. The edges of the border are singed.]()
![Collage of a house protected by a square border cut from a hundred dollar bill. Outside the border are trees on a fiery red background. The edges of the border are singed.]()
In wildfire-prone areas, homeowners are learning they’re uninsurable
Wildfires cause billions in home damage every year. Now, insurers no longer want to take on the risk.
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![Collage of flooded home]()
What happens when America’s flood insurance market goes underwater?
More homeowners than ever need flood insurance. Fewer than ever can afford it.
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![Collage of earth falling into a broken net made of a dollar bill]()
![Collage of earth falling into a broken net made of a dollar bill]()
As climate risks mount, the insurance safety net is collapsing
Natural disasters now cost the U.S. insurance industry $100 billion a year. What happens when no one wants to pick up the tab?
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Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens a civil rights probe in Alabama
Advocates allege the state hindered Black residents from receiving critical federal funds.
