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![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection
"We risked our health for the delivery companies during COVID, and now we are doing it again."
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![President Joe Biden and others stand on the floor of an EV assembly plant]()
![President Joe Biden and others stand on the floor of an EV assembly plant]()
States are falling behind in using IRA funding to advance climate action
Two years after the IRA passed, a new report found that states have only captured a tiny fraction of the funding available.
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Grist launches community engagement project for immigrant farmworkers in Florida
A digital guide and 1,300 brochures in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole on food access, disaster preparedness, and immigrants’ rights are being distributed statewide.
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![An Amazon Web Services data center situated near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world.]()
![An Amazon Web Services data center situated near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world.]()
Amazon says it’s going ‘water positive’ — but there’s a problem
The company’s pledge to conserve water at its data centers doesn’t account for the thirsty power plants that keep them running.
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![A man pours a bucket of shells.]()
A new solution for flood-prone cities? Concrete made from shellfish waste.
Researchers have developed a type of concrete that uses discarded shells to trap water. It's now combating floods and food waste in urban gardens and along cycling paths.
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Oakland’s new school buses don’t just reduce pollution — they double as giant batteries
A new fleet of buses can send power back to the grid, stabilizing it instead of straining it.
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As climate change worsens, deadly prison heat is increasingly an everywhere problem
With heat waves sweeping across the country, incarcerated people in states with traditionally milder climates are facing brutal conditions that have long plagued the South and Southwest. A survey by The Appeal reveals that many of the hottest states house prisoners in units without air-conditioning.
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![Collage of Los Angeles smog, President Richard Nixon signing a bill, cars on a California freeway, and a vintage cartoon clipping]()
![Collage of Los Angeles smog, President Richard Nixon signing a bill, cars on a California freeway, and a vintage cartoon clipping]()
The forgotten fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s
Half a century ago, an obscure state senator fought to ban gas-powered cars — and almost won.
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Why Mississippi coal is powering Georgia’s data centers
With electricity demand spiking, the Southern Company has opted to keep burning fossil fuels.
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![An evacuee from Hurricane Katrina sits on his cot while on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome September 7, 2005 in Houston, Texas.]()
![An evacuee from Hurricane Katrina sits on his cot while on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome September 7, 2005 in Houston, Texas.]()
They settled in Houston after Katrina — and then faced a political storm
The backlash against an effort to resettle 200,000 evacuees holds lessons for future disasters.
