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A new report looks at major companies’ efforts to address plastic waste — and finds them lacking
Of the 147 companies with a package recyclability goal, only 15 percent were on track to meet it.
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Real-time data show the air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ is even worse than expected
A new study finds levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide that are nine times higher than those estimated by the EPA’s models.
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What is LaToya Ruby Frazier trying to show us?
The photographer’s fight against environmental injustice and historical erasure, one frame at a time.
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A lack of data hampers efforts to fix racial disparities in utility cutoffs
A Minnesota study found customers in communities of color are three times more likely than others to have their electricity cut off, highlighting a hidden nationwide problem.
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Heat waves are making restaurant kitchens unsafe. Workers are fighting back.
As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.
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How forecasts of bad weather can drive up your grocery bill
Economists are seeing a growing link between isolated climate shocks and supply chain disruptions that lead to higher food costs.
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Virginia has the biggest data center market in the world. Can it also decarbonize its grid?
Dominion Energy, the state’s largest utility, says new natural gas plants will be needed to meet rising electricity demand, while the state studies how this booming sector will impact Virginia’s transition to renewable energy.
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Cattle are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Hawaiian seaweed could change that.
Local businesses in Hawai’i are getting big funding boosts to help make farmed algae part of the solution in addressing the amount of methane cattle produce.
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Why a new method of growing food on Mars matters more on Earth
Turns out growing crops on the Red Planet is a lot like growing food on a climate-ravaged Earth.
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A labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led EV transition is possible
Where federal dollars and green jobs are flowing, unions see an opportunity to organize the right-to-work South.