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Climate change is making jobs deadlier — and OSHA can’t take the heat
The agency was chartered almost 20 years before the first Congressional hearing on climate change.
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How a Nebraska ethanol plant turned seeds into toxic waste
State regulators shuttered the AltEn plant in 2021 after years of environmental violations. Residents are just beginning to grapple with its toxic legacy.
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These 9 cities are leading the nation’s solar surge
Together, they're generating more solar power than the entire country did a decade ago.
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LA County bans throwaway dishes and cutlery
A new ordinance will require thousands of restaurants to use compostables or recyclables by 2023.
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Land defenders face violence and repression. Clean energy could make it worse.
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California offers $100 million for tribes to buy back their land. It won’t go far.
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Rappahannock Tribe gets 465 acres of land back on the Chesapeake Bay
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A new report reveals how the Dakota Access Pipeline is breaking the law
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Public-private infrastructure partnerships hurt the climate — and taxpayers.
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Weddings are back. We can make them less wasteful.
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Yes, disposable masks are made of plastic. And that’s a problem.
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Why would Big Oil blame Biden for gas prices? (Hint: to stop climate progress.)
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The cost of toxic products? Just $1
A new report finds your dollar store savings may come with a big health cost.
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FEMA’s new flood insurance system is sinking waterfront homeowners. That might be the point.
Premiums are ballooning in states like Florida and Louisiana — and adaptation measures won't bring costs back down.
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Renewables are growing — but a backlog of projects is holding up a greener grid
Wait times to connect to the grid are going up, and more projects are dropping out in the process.
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Biden: Federal agencies must consider climate impacts of infrastructure projects
The changes to the National Environmental Policy Act reverse Trump-era rollbacks, impacting projects from roads to railways to pipelines.
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A circular economy for smartphones and laptops
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Amid illegal Amazon gold mining, Indigenous land defenders get reinforcements
Experts say the mines lead to murder, deforestation, pollution, and other crimes against Indigenous people in Brazil.
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Cows, coal, and climate change: A Q&A with the new BLM director
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses how the federal agency sees conservation, the climate crisis, and the Indigenous history of public lands.
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How rights of nature and wild rice could stop a pipeline
Meet the Ojibwe attorney fighting a Line 3 expansion that threatens Indigenous rights and the environment
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