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EPA targets cancer-causing emissions from medical sterilization facilities
Ethylene oxide has long been linked to cancers of the breasts, lymph nodes, and lungs.
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![Research ecologist Ted Kennedy drives his boat along the Colorado River as the Glen Canyon Dam is seen in the background.]()
![Research ecologist Ted Kennedy drives his boat along the Colorado River as the Glen Canyon Dam is seen in the background.]()
Feds’ Colorado River choice: California’s rights or Arizona’s future?
For the Biden administration to stabilize the river, one of the two states will have to lose big.
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Inside climate activists’ uneasy relationship with ‘net-zero’
How the logic of carbon neutrality got “lit on fire” by big polluters.
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![Golf resorts and urban housing developments in Arizona bordering farmlands on the Gila Indian Reservation.]()
![Golf resorts and urban housing developments in Arizona bordering farmlands on the Gila Indian Reservation.]()
US turns to tribes to help Arizona survive Colorado River cuts
Authorities will pay the Gila River Indian Community and Colorado River Indian Tribes hundreds of millions of dollars to use less water from the river.
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A tax break on clean energy projects is coming to coal and oil towns
The Biden administration wants to give the fossil fuel "energy communities" of coal country and beyond an economic boost.
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![Activists hold up torches and portraits of slain indigenous peoples and environmental defenders during a rally on November 10, 2022 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines.]()
![Activists hold up torches and portraits of slain indigenous peoples and environmental defenders during a rally on November 10, 2022 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines.]()
2022 was a particularly deadly year for land and environmental activists
Nearly a quarter of the activists murdered were Indigenous.
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![Collage of farmer standing in field with computer chip pattern beneath the crops]()
In Oregon, a microchip gold rush could pave over long-protected farmland
To lure chipmakers, the state's lawmakers voted to roll back 50-year-old restrictions on urban growth.
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![A man swings his bat at home plate in a baseball game.]()
How climate change is making it easier to hit home runs
A new study found that climate change is knocking it out of the park — no, really.
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![An aerial videw of a blue river cut in half by a dam, with brown hills on each side.]()
Green colonialism is flooding the Pacific Northwest
The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.
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![A series of electrical towers and wires leading to a large plant.]()
El Paso charter fight tests whether a Texas city will move away from fossil fuels
Climate activists have turned to local initiatives to rein in carbon emissions, including a May special election in El Paso.
