clean air
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New Yorkers might soon have a constitutional right to clean air and water
On Tuesday, the state legislature passed a package of green bills, including a proposed constitutional change guaranteeing the right to clean air and water.
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Smog-sucking bikes? This artist wants to make it happen.
Bonus: The captured smog can be used to make jewelry.
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Before the EPA, our cities looked like this
The agency protects much more than rural ponds and spotted owls.
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Advancing environmental justice: A cheat sheet for candidates
It means supporting workers and curbing more than just carbon emissions.
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This green entrepreneur was once an undocumented farmworker
Ruben Garcia's remarkable innovations are helping to clean up the shipping industry.
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Beautiful video asks: Why don’t we have more protection for our environmental rights?
Canada's squandering its reputation as a nice, progressive place to live by letting the oil industry mine oil sands.
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Map shows the worst air in America
The EPA is issuing new regulations for emissions from power plants, and the American Lung Association knows why. This map shows U.S. deaths caused by toxic power plant emissions. If you live in a state with a big red circle, you should be very very glad about the new rule — Texas in particular should […]
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Clean air ad featuring asthmatic kids is dangerously adorable
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) did a really good job at tugging every heartstring available in this new ad: Seriously, how much do you want to cry now? Maybe they really should send asthmatic kids into Congress as lobbyists. NRDC and Sierra Club are doing the closest thing possible without […]
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Julianne Moore wants clean air for kids
Did you guys know Julianne Moore wrote a children’s book? This is apparently the thing celebrities do when they’re over 25 (under 25, they start a perfume line). It’s about the heartbreak of being a ginger, and not about environmental stuff at all, but that isn’t stopping Moore from plugging it in her video for […]