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![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
For a just transition to green energy, tribes need more than money
Advice from an Indigenous researcher: "To go fast, start slow."
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Biden’s environmental justice scorecard offers more questions than answers
The White House's own environmental justice progress report gives little insight into the green benefits delivered to disadvantaged communities.
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Corporate climate plans are improving, but still ‘critically insufficient’
New analysis finds "quite a big gap" between 51 companies' emissions targets and their plans to actually achieve them.
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Climate solutions, by the hundred
In honor of our 100th issue of Looking Forward, here are some of the most surprising, most actionable, and most fun solutions we've explored together.
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How climate change is making us sick
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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![illustration in the style of WPA posters of 3 electricians with electric bolts above them; a heat pump and solar panels in the background]()
To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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EPA finalizes the nation’s first PFAS limits in drinking water
Although there are thousands of forever chemicals, the new regulation targets six of the most pervasive ones.
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![Hindreds of youth climate activists hold banners during a demonstration demanding action to address climate change on March 15, 2019 in Paris.]()
![Hindreds of youth climate activists hold banners during a demonstration demanding action to address climate change on March 15, 2019 in Paris.]()
Bloomberg funds youth-led climate action in 100 cities worldwide
The grants will ensure young activists can shape local climate actions.
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The EPA’s first chemical plant rule in 20 years targets polluters in Louisiana and Texas
The new regulations could cut emissions of certain carcinogens by nearly 80 percent.
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Water from arsenic-laced wells could protect the Pine Ridge reservation from wildfires
“We’re looking to deal with extended drought and the increasing intensity of wildfires.”
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![Atomic plant Vogtle is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia.]()
![Atomic plant Vogtle is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia.]()
Georgia’s Vogtle plant could herald the beginning — or end — of a new nuclear era
The $35 billion nuclear project is an investment in the future or a cautionary tale, depending whom you ask.
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![Digital collage of brain with brain coral on top half and clown fish swimming above]()
![Digital collage of brain with brain coral on top half and clown fish swimming above]()
Climate change is rewiring fish brains — and probably ours, too
Acidifying oceans are leading to sensory loss in fish. Scientists fear people might be next.
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![A power plant belches smoke at sunset.]()
![A power plant belches smoke at sunset.]()
The US aims to ‘crack the code’ on scaling up geothermal energy production
Per the Department of Energy, 10 percent of electricity could be generated by geothermal systems by 2050.
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![A white car sits in a parking lot attached to a Tesla charger.]()
![A white car sits in a parking lot attached to a Tesla charger.]()
Disabled drivers can’t use many electric car chargers. It doesn’t have to be this way.
If electric cars are the future, people with disabilities need to drive them.
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