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‘Where are they?’ With government aid still spotty, Maui locals funnel supplies to fire survivors.
People stuck in their homes are depending on the community for generator fuel, propane, and ice.
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Feds ease up on Colorado River restrictions — for now
This year’s wet winter helped save the river from collapse. But a reckoning is on the horizon.
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Livestock are dying in the heat. This little-known farming method offers a solution.
Silvopasture could make for healthier soil — and keep cattle alive during sweltering summers.
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Montana youth win a historic climate case
A victory for Montanans' right to a clean, healthy environment could set a precedent for other climate lawsuits nationwide.
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How Maui’s wildfires became the country’s deadliest in more than a century
The grisly scenes are easy to understand "in the age of global warming," Hawaiʻi’s governor said.
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What one school’s fight to eliminate PFAS says about Indian Country’s ‘forever chemical’ problem
As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind.
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What it might look like if President Biden really declared a climate emergency
Activists say nothing short of an emergency declaration will address deadly heat — and the fossil fuel dependency driving it.
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Gulf Coast carbon capture gets $1 billion boost from Biden administration
Texas and Louisiana slated for largest-ever investment in "direct air capture."
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EPA approved a fuel ingredient even though it could cause cancer in virtually every person exposed over a lifetime
An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.
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The one-mile rule: Texas’ unwritten and arbitrary policy protects big polluters from citizen complaints
The policy has been denounced in lawsuits and petitions, but the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality denies that it exists.