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![Illustrated puzzle with map of Austin, Texas, on it, with four pieces missing from the middle]()
Texas is skirting federal environmental law to push for highway expansion
The state department of transportation says many of its highway projects have “no significant impact.”
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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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![CEO of African Wildlife Foundation, Kaddu Sebunya, speaks at a podium; a backdrop with Africa Protected Areas Congress's logo on it in the background]()
![CEO of African Wildlife Foundation, Kaddu Sebunya, speaks at a podium; a backdrop with Africa Protected Areas Congress's logo on it in the background]()
Indigenous leaders say Africa’s conservation plan puts lives at risk
'We cannot co-manage what is under the custody of people who have been destroying it.'
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![a firefighter clears brush from the base of a giant sequoia tree]()
Forest Service announces emergency plan to save giant sequoias
In the past two years, nearly 20 percent of the iconic trees have been destroyed by wildfire.
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![The downtown skyline in Houston, Texas on August 25, 2018.]()
![The downtown skyline in Houston, Texas on August 25, 2018.]()
Houston investigated for slow 311 response to Black & Hispanic residents
City allegedly addresses illegal dumping complaints by people of color more slowly than those from white residents.
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![An old oil pumpjack in a yard near residential homes]()
Pennsylvania just lost a key tool to address its abandoned oil well problem
"It’s a green light for the conventional oil and gas industry to continue to do what they’ve done, which is abandon these wells whenever they feel like it."
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![red and green cherry tomatoes grow on bamboo poles in front of a block of apartment buildings]()
Study: Tomatoes grown in lead-contaminated soil appear safe to eat
It's good news for tomato lovers, mixed for urban gardeners.
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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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![Two women walk along in front of the clock tower Big Ben with an umbrella as a sunshade.]()
UK is no longer a cold country and must adapt to heat, say climate scientists
Experts call on U.K. officials to prepare for periods of extreme heat or risk thousands of excess deaths.
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![Volunteer Deborah Woolley of Seattle collects marine trash in an area designated for the Escaped Trash Assessment Protocol (ETAP) at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle, Saturday, April 23, 2022.]()
![Volunteer Deborah Woolley of Seattle collects marine trash in an area designated for the Escaped Trash Assessment Protocol (ETAP) at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle, Saturday, April 23, 2022.]()
The search for the source of plastic pollution
Clean up efforts in the Pacific Northwest are directing their attention away from the end life of plastic to focus on the beginning.
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![Three individuals in the foreground look out towards the horizon, which is filled with smoke. Sunlight filtering through the smoke gives the entire photo an orange tinge.]()
Record-breaking heat in Europe spurs dangerous air pollution
Turning up the heat also means turning up the ozone and wildfire smoke.
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Biden calls climate change an ‘emergency,’ but stops short of declaring it
The president unveiled new climate actions that activists say "don’t even scratch the surface of what’s needed."
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