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As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices
On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.
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After a Houston-area chemical fire, toxic benzene lingered for weeks, endangering residents
Pollution from the 2019 fire remained elevated long after shelter-in-place warnings ended, according to an analysis of previously unreported air and monitoring data.
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How to blow up ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’
The new thriller takes a radical climate activist's argument into the mainstream — sort of.
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A record warm streak in the oceans has scientists worried
A budding El Niño and climate change likely play a role, experts say.
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The very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis
A century-old miscalculation has California and Arizona fighting over water. Again.
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For years, the EPA and Texas ignored warning signs at a chemical storage site. Then an inferno erupted.
Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.
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The Supreme Court just unleashed a flood of lawsuits against Big Oil
Climate court cases are about to get a lot more interesting.
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San Carlos Apache take copper mine fight to United Nations
Oak flat is one of the largest copper sources in North America. It's also the San Carlos Apache Tribe's most sacred site.
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Spring wildfires in the eastern US got off to a roaring start this year
It may not be as dramatic as when the West burns, but an unseasonably warm, dry winter could make fire season longer and more intense.
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![U.S. President Joe Biden is surrounded by environmental justice advocates and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he signs an executive order addressing environmental justice issues in the Rose Garden of the White House.]()
![U.S. President Joe Biden is surrounded by environmental justice advocates and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he signs an executive order addressing environmental justice issues in the Rose Garden of the White House.]()
New Biden executive order takes aim at environmental injustice
Past and present pollution will now be taken into account before new industry moves into already beleaguered neighborhoods.
