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![Felisa Benitez, an 86 year old woman, wipes the sweat from her brow while taking a break from cleaning her stand-up electrical fan on the porch of her home]()
![Felisa Benitez, an 86 year old woman, wipes the sweat from her brow while taking a break from cleaning her stand-up electrical fan on the porch of her home]()
Unplugged: Why utilities are more likely to disconnect Black, Latino, and Indigenous households
Extreme weather leaves millions of Americans with power bills they can't afford.
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![Two Maori fishermen landing a swordfish off New Zealand, circa 1935.]()
![Two Maori fishermen landing a swordfish off New Zealand, circa 1935.]()
For New Zealand Māori, an uncertain future as fish move away
As the climate warms, animals are heading for new areas. The Indigenous Māori’s experience handling the shift offers a warning — and lessons — for people around the world.
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![An oil pump jack in a residential area in Southern California]()
![An oil pump jack in a residential area in Southern California]()
Drilling setbacks, net-zero, and a nuclear lifeline. Here’s what just happened in California.
The state passed a slate of bills that tighten up its climate plans.
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![Multiple incarcerated people looking out a screened prison window]()
![Multiple incarcerated people looking out a screened prison window]()
Prison air conditioning is coming too slowly for those who need it most
Rising temperatures, lawsuits, and COVID relief funds are pushing Southern states to finally invest in prison air conditioning.
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![a giant piece of equipment and drill platform in the middle of the ocean]()
![a giant piece of equipment and drill platform in the middle of the ocean]()
Court sends 2 Gulf oil leases back to the Department of the Interior
The decision doesn’t halt oil production in the contested areas. But environmental groups are still calling it a win.
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![Collage: an electric car hooked up to a charging station, mountains, a silhouette of North Carolina, a chunk of lithium ore, and a sign with the words]()
![Collage: an electric car hooked up to a charging station, mountains, a silhouette of North Carolina, a chunk of lithium ore, and a sign with the words]()
The electric vehicle boom could bring lithium mines back to North Carolina
Not all locals are happy about it.
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![Collage: Indigenous woman with a lake and trees behind her; a cloud of smoke and a pink sun hover over her head; a sign for Mille Lacs Reservation in the foreground]()
![Collage: Indigenous woman with a lake and trees behind her; a cloud of smoke and a pink sun hover over her head; a sign for Mille Lacs Reservation in the foreground]()
Wildfire smoke is choking Indigenous communities
With government monitoring lagging behind, members are installing their own monitors.
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![A brown sign demarcating the Homestake mine, surrounded by plains.]()
![A brown sign demarcating the Homestake mine, surrounded by plains.]()
A Uranium ghost town in the making
Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen.
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![Photo of mountaintop removal mine site with photo of flooded street in Kentucky layered on top]()
![Photo of mountaintop removal mine site with photo of flooded street in Kentucky layered on top]()
How coal mining increased East Kentucky’s flood risk
Coal mining destroyed Appalachia's mountaintops. Then came the floodwaters.
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![Small houses connected by a glowing yellow line in the shape of a lightning bolt with lights flickering on in the windows]()
![Small houses connected by a glowing yellow line in the shape of a lightning bolt with lights flickering on in the windows]()
The plan to turn blighted houses into a new source of green power for the grid
A California nonprofit is retrofitting homes to make a "virtual power plant" — and fighting gentrification at the same time.
