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![Climate Activists Protest An Enbridge Pipeline]()
![Climate Activists Protest An Enbridge Pipeline]()
A leaky pipeline operates illegally on tribal land. Will the White House please speak up?
Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline is threatening the Great Lakes and treaty-protected land. Biden needs to back his promises to Indigenous communities.
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![Jumble of clothing]()
![Jumble of clothing]()
To rein in fast fashion, the U.S. needs to rebuild its textile industry
Sustainable clothing labels can’t compete with fast fashion unless we scale up organic textile manufacturing and regulate polluting fibers.
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![Full size male elk in North Carolina in Fall]()
![Full size male elk in North Carolina in Fall]()
Elk are a phoenix rising from Appalachia’s coal ashes
A corridor of wild elk habitat from Georgia to Maine would bolster regional economies and a cooler climate.
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![A demonstrator marches, holding a Black Lives Matter flag, during the sixth night of protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 16, 2021.]()
![A demonstrator marches, holding a Black Lives Matter flag, during the sixth night of protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 16, 2021.]()
As a Black climate activist, racism gets in my way
White activists wonder why Black communities aren’t more climate-focused. Allies know that fighting racial injustice is the first step.
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![Light bulb and coin stack]()
![Light bulb and coin stack]()
Tax credits for wind and solar projects are broken. Congress can fix that.
There’s a backlog of renewables projects ready to go, but banks can’t easily finance them.
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![Smoke billowing from industrial smoke stacks]()
![Smoke billowing from industrial smoke stacks]()
Coal’s holdovers must shut down or clean up
Dozens of U.S. plants continue to run without modern pollution control technology. The Biden administration can wind them down once and for all.
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![Wild beaver in Wyoming]()
![Wild beaver in Wyoming]()
It’s International Beaver Day — and dam time we celebrate it
Beavers could protect us from wildfires, but only if we better protect them.
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![Jet airplane landing at dusk]()
![Jet airplane landing at dusk]()
It should be tougher to fly first class
Premium airline seats are so carbon intensive, they should be reserved for people with legit medical needs.
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![Trans-Alaska Pipeline]()
![Trans-Alaska Pipeline]()
To protect federal lands, the burden of proof is on conservationists. It should be on extractors.
Fossil fuel companies with land leases don’t need to make a case for drilling, digging, or fracking, but a lot would change if they did.
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![Indian Ocean]()
![Indian Ocean]()
The world is rushing to protect our oceans. Let’s make sure we’re doing it right.
Marine Protected Areas sink carbon and protect coastlines, but too many countries claim them on paper without regulation or enforcement.
