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![a choropleth map of Chicago showing various shades of red indicating lead service pipe density by neighborhood]()
![a choropleth map of Chicago showing various shades of red indicating lead service pipe density by neighborhood]()
Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all.
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
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![a hand grips a lead testing kit]()
![a hand grips a lead testing kit]()
Lead pipes are everywhere in Chicago. Here’s how to protect yourself.
How to test your water, get free filters, and find other help.
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![AFP Vermont blue and white banner]()
![AFP Vermont blue and white banner]()
How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont
In one of the bluest U.S. states, Americans for Prosperity is making inroads against climate action.
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![A satellite image shows Hurricane Katrina swirling over the Gulf Coast]()
![A satellite image shows Hurricane Katrina swirling over the Gulf Coast]()
We now know just how much climate change supercharged Hurricane Katrina
Two decades after the devastating storm, scientists can more easily determine how much global warming is intensifying tropical cyclones.
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![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees are sinking and short on money
The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.
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![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’
The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.
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![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
Inside the program cuts, workforce purges, and secretive reorganization of the USDA
As the Trump administration shrinks the Department of Agriculture, rural farming communities are left to pay the price.
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![A white wind turbine stands in the middle of the ocean]()
![A white wind turbine stands in the middle of the ocean]()
Trump administration halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm
Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is hit with a stop-work order over vague “national security” concerns.
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![The Immigration and Custom Enforcement immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is seen in an aerial shot of the Everglades.]()
![The Immigration and Custom Enforcement immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is seen in an aerial shot of the Everglades.]()
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ must close, but the fight isn’t over
A judge sided with the Miccosukee Tribe and said the ICE detention center must close. Florida officials have already appealed.
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![Two white buildings tower in front of a blue sky and one reads FEMA]()
![Two white buildings tower in front of a blue sky and one reads FEMA]()
FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
