Climate Accountability
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Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them?
“We’re asking for something so simple. Something that could save so many lives.”
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![A photo of red knobs on a gas stove.]()
To obscure the risks of gas stoves, utilities borrowed from Big Tobacco’s playbook
Industry-funded research downplayed health hazards as far back as 1974, documents show.
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![A collage showing a crying boy illustration, pigs, and a water tower.]()
The fight over a facility that recycles dead animals in Los Angeles
Neighbors had celebrated the temporary shutdown of Baker Commodities, an animal-byproduct recycling plant, but now an upcoming court decision could allow it to fully reopen.
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![Children play in the ocean under an orange sky.]()
How a little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans
An investigation found that local governments are increasingly exploiting a loophole in the Clean Air Act, leaving more than 21 million Americans with air that’s dirtier than they realize.
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Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens a civil rights probe in Alabama
Advocates allege the state hindered Black residents from receiving critical federal funds.
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In Texas, oilfield companies helped to craft new waste rules for 2 years before the public got to see them
The effort to update the state’s oilfield waste disposal rules was initiated by Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright, one of the state’s top oil and gas regulators who has investments in the industry.
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![A man in a yellow shirt pushes a wheelbarrow amid mounds of debris as another man watches on.]()
![A man in a yellow shirt pushes a wheelbarrow amid mounds of debris as another man watches on.]()
A warming planet is creating a booming, and dangerous, disaster-restoration industry
Fueled by immigrant labor, the loosely regulated industry exposes workers to lethal toxins that are making them sick long after the cleanup.
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Companies are claiming to be ‘plastic neutral.’ Is it greenwashing?
Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic.
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![A woman in a green vest and jeans digs out debris on a street.]()
![A woman in a green vest and jeans digs out debris on a street.]()
Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels
A new study shows disaster restoration workers, mostly refugees and immigrants, are poorly protected as top firms "pad their pockets by cutting costs."
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Environmentalists sue Utah for failing to protect the shrinking Great Salt Lake
Researchers warn that the lake may disappear in five years if water loss continues at current rates.
