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![A photo of four men in hard hats on a rooftop, installing blue solar panels. They are bound by safety harnesses. Two men watch them from the ground.]()
![A photo of four men in hard hats on a rooftop, installing blue solar panels. They are bound by safety harnesses. Two men watch them from the ground.]()
Biden’s under-the-radar executive moves would make solar cheaper for low-income renters
Before the Manchin news broke, Biden announced a slate of climate measures.
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![Oscar Sanchez, a participant in the General Iron hunger strike, speaks during a protest of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2021.]()
![Oscar Sanchez, a participant in the General Iron hunger strike, speaks during a protest of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2021.]()
Chicago made its Southeast Side a polluter’s haven, violating civil rights
The city’s decision to relocate a scrapyard to a majority Black and Brown community is part of a pattern of environmental discrimination, according to a federal investigation.
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![houses in the foreground with an oil refinery in the background]()
Experts to Congress: Restore EPA enforcement staffing and funding for environmental justice
Since 2011, enforcement budget has declined by nearly 30 percent.
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A key US energy efficiency program has a major flaw — and Pennsylvania is trying to fix it
Homes are rejected for efficiency upgrades because they need repairs. Many owners can't afford them.
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![Fugitive emissions captured by an infrared camera at the Elk Hills Power Plant in Kern County, California.]()
![Fugitive emissions captured by an infrared camera at the Elk Hills Power Plant in Kern County, California.]()
California regulators try to salvage system for allowing ‘extreme’ pollution
Residents challenge regulators’ claims that they can’t account for toxic oil and gas emissions in the San Joaquin Valley.
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![Painting in the folk art style of Grandma Moses of a valley between mountains, with buildings and homes, a river and road winding between them; the mountain on the left has an area of mountaintop removal and a pile of coal]()
![Painting in the folk art style of Grandma Moses of a valley between mountains, with buildings and homes, a river and road winding between them; the mountain on the left has an area of mountaintop removal and a pile of coal]()
What happened to the ‘war on coal’ in West Virginia?
The activism spotlight has left the Coal River Valley. But when the battlefield is your home, you don’t give up the fight.
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Toxic algal blooms are driving up water costs in the Great Lakes
In Toledo, Ohio, monitoring and treating algae-contaminated water from Lake Erie costs $100 per family per year.
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![Repsol employees work filling buckets with contaminated sand during the cleanup in the shore of Cavero Beach on January 20, 2022 in Ventanilla, Peru.]()
![Repsol employees work filling buckets with contaminated sand during the cleanup in the shore of Cavero Beach on January 20, 2022 in Ventanilla, Peru.]()
Five months later, the Ancón oil spill’s effects linger
Out of work and short on cash and food, a fishing community in Peru is simultaneously paralyzed by exhaustion and ready to boil over.
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![a woman in a car drives by a refinery]()
![a woman in a car drives by a refinery]()
One family, three generations of cancer, and the largest concentration of oil refineries in California
A new community survey exposes widespread cancer, asthma, anxiety, and depression in Wilmington, California.
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![train passes in front of apartment buildings with industrial facilities and a river in the background]()
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New Jersey releases blueprint for landmark environmental justice law
'We need to actually say no to industry when it hurts communities.'
