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A groundbreaking environmental justice bill is poised to become law
Democrats who drafted the Environmental Justice for All Act are optimistic it will pass.
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Stacey Abrams helped Georgia go blue. Now she wants it to go green.
Abrams connects the dots between voting rights, transit, and the future of the planet.
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Why Hawaii’s seawalls are doing more harm than good
The sea is invading Hawaii. The military's plan to build a seawall near Pearl Harbor might make the problem worse.
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One of the most polluted counties in America is getting 40,000 more oil wells
Kern County, California, is fast-tracking new drilling projects.
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After 20 years of advocacy, Black farmers finally get debt relief
On Wednesday, Congress passed one of the most sweeping relief programs for minority farmers in the nation’s history, through a provision of President Biden’s pandemic stimulus bill.
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Occupy hotel rooms: Inside LA’s new push to solve homelessness
Hotels don’t want to shelter homeless people. Advocates say it shouldn’t be a choice.
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The Navajo Nation generates a ton of power — but 14,000 homes don’t have electricity
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority planned to electrify thousands of Navajo homes. Then COVID hit.
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UN says environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley must end
The report condemned disproportionate cancer rates in the badly polluted petrochemical corridor.
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![Madonna Manor maintenance supervisor Lamar Jackson left, stacks bottled water brought by Mac Epps of Mississippi Move, as part of the supply efforts by city councilman and State Rep. De'Keither Stamps to a senior residence in west Jackson, Miss.]()
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Mississippi is lifting COVID restrictions while thousands of residents can’t even wash their hands
Texas’ experience of last month’s deadly winter storm may have grabbed headlines, but its neighbors fared just as badly.
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Pollution is so bad in this Chicago neighborhood, people are on hunger strike to stop it
It's been nearly a month since dozens of Chicagoans went on hunger strike to stop a scrapyard from being moved to a lower-income neighborhood.
