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The EPA is aiming to get rid of lead pipes in 10 years. But not in Chicago.
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.
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![A pastel green house is boarded up after Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida. The board reads WE LEFT under a slightly damaged roof. The sky is blue with large, white clouds.]()
![A pastel green house is boarded up after Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida. The board reads WE LEFT under a slightly damaged roof. The sky is blue with large, white clouds.]()
Why tenants struggle more in the wake of hurricanes
“There's so many ways that renters are screwed.”
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![One man holds a tub of hempcrete and another man pushes it into place in a wooden building frame.]()
![One man holds a tub of hempcrete and another man pushes it into place in a wooden building frame.]()
The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp
The Indigenous nation will soon have the only facility to create hempcrete in the country.
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![Empty lots, homes under construction and residences built after the Camp Fire line the street.]()
![Empty lots, homes under construction and residences built after the Camp Fire line the street.]()
5 years after the Camp Fire, a survivor reflects on Paradise’s recovery
After losing their home, Charles Brooks and his family chose to rebuild, and helped hundreds of others do the same.
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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.
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There’s still a chance for America to reach net-zero, but it requires drastic action
That includes building more renewables, selling more electric vehicles, and fixing up more buildings.
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![An electrician uncrates a heat pump system that is about to be installed behind a white house.]()
![An electrician uncrates a heat pump system that is about to be installed behind a white house.]()
A group of US governors promises to install 20 million heat pumps by 2030
And they want to put at least 40 percent of them in disadvantaged communities.
