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Corporate climate pledges earn failing grades from investors
Investors managing $54 trillion are turning up the pressure on top emitters.
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Can FEMA save the ‘poorest town in America’ from drowning in its own poop?
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Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal
A new legal strategy could force Harvard’s hand.
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The EPA cut back enforcement during COVID. These researchers are assessing the damage.
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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs
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Jamie Margolin mobilized youth to protest climate inaction in 2018. In 2021, she says both nothing and everything has changed.
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The ‘army of environmental super voters’ is growing, and marching on city hall
The Environmental Voter Project, which has contacted nearly 6.2 million voters since 2015, is expanding into five new states.
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A groundbreaking environmental justice bill is poised to become law
Democrats who drafted the Environmental Justice for All Act are optimistic it will pass.
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