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![Ground flare at the Exxon SABIC Gulf Coast Growth Ventures petrochemical plant in Portland Texas on Dec, 6, 2021.]()
![Ground flare at the Exxon SABIC Gulf Coast Growth Ventures petrochemical plant in Portland Texas on Dec, 6, 2021.]()
As alarm over plastic grows, Saudis ramp up production in the US
President Biden is in the kingdom this week to strengthen ties. Meanwhile, a U.S.-Saudi joint venture on the Texas coast is pumping out toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases.
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![A farmworker fights the Thomas Fire on December 7, 2017 near Fillmore, California.]()
![A farmworker fights the Thomas Fire on December 7, 2017 near Fillmore, California.]()
As heat rises, who will protect farmworkers?
There are currently no nationwide regulations that spell out what employers must do to protect workers from heat.
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![An aerial picture shows Islands jutting out into a lake amid the vast swamplands of the Sudd, around the border of Jonglei and Unity states in Southern Sudan, on June 21, 2011.]()
![An aerial picture shows Islands jutting out into a lake amid the vast swamplands of the Sudd, around the border of Jonglei and Unity states in Southern Sudan, on June 21, 2011.]()
Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
South Sudan is moving ahead with plans for a 240-mile canal to divert water from the White Nile and send it to Egypt. But critics warn the megaproject would desiccate the world’s second largest wetland, impacting its rich wildlife and the rains on which the region depends.
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![A man fishes in a Colorado stream.]()
![A man fishes in a Colorado stream.]()
The Colorado stream case that could revolutionize river access
Who owns the beds of Colorado’s rivers? After years of uncertainty and altercations, a court may soon decide.
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![Plastic waste washed up on a sunny beach]()
![Plastic waste washed up on a sunny beach]()
California passes nation’s toughest plastic reduction bill
Experts say the bill could prevent 23 million tons of plastic pollution by 2032.
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![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
The Supreme Court’s climate decision came out of a decades-long campaign to kneecap regulation
A brief history of how dark money and the country's most powerful legal organization brought us to this point.
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![A front facing portrait of Kaipo Kekona, an Indigenous Hawaiian farmer.]()
![A front facing portrait of Kaipo Kekona, an Indigenous Hawaiian farmer.]()
The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island
Maui is a hub for GMO research, but Indigenous farmers are trying to bring back the abundant and thriving landscapes of their ancestors.
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![NextEra logo on a phone and slightly blurred in background]()
![NextEra logo on a phone and slightly blurred in background]()
With ‘real zero,’ NextEra pushes back against deceptive carbon offsets
Environmental advocates praise the plan and note a few flaws.
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![train passes in front of apartment buildings with industrial facilities and a river in the background]()
![train passes in front of apartment buildings with industrial facilities and a river in the background]()
New Jersey releases blueprint for landmark environmental justice law
'We need to actually say no to industry when it hurts communities.'
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![Alberta oil sands tar sands]()
![Alberta oil sands tar sands]()
Canadians’ $100 billion oil and gas problem
Canadians and investors continue to funnel money into fossil fuel assets that researchers warn will soon become worthless.
