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Here’s why a California beach town just banned balloons
Laguna Beach said the decision would keep litter out of the ocean and prevent potential fires.
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![Digital collage: historic map of Mobile Bay, sign to Africatown, photo of Cudjo Lewis, and illustration of a slave ship]()
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How the seeds of environmental racism were planted in the Progressive Era
Africatown, the only U.S. community established by West Africans who survived the Middle Passage, demonstrates the long roots of environmental injustice.
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California is racing to electrify trucks. Can the industry keep up?
As frontline communities demand relief from diesel pollution, trucking advocates warn the state is moving too fast.
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REI will ban ‘forever chemicals’ from clothes and cookware in 2024
The announcement is “yet another nail in the coffin for PFAS.”
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![A damaged single story house with its front porch bent lies in a forested area in Eastern Kentucky after flooding in July 2022]()
A report on flood-ravaged communities in eastern Kentucky asks: What is the real cost of rebuilding?
The answer: try at least $500 million.
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![Storm clouds gather behind a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, in Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.]()
As Louisiana’s coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too
New levees are too late to stop the exodus for bayou villages like Pointe-aux-Chenes.
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It would take less than 3% of Big Oil’s profits to clean up methane emissions
"There is just no excuse" for the rise in methane emissions last year, IEA director says.
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![Construction equipment works on derailed trains. There is snow on the ground and bare trees in the background.]()
![Construction equipment works on derailed trains. There is snow on the ground and bare trees in the background.]()
The train derailment in Ohio was a disaster waiting to happen
Trains carry hazardous chemicals everyday. They're also dangerously unregulated.
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Are the feds sacrificing endangered salmon to help potato farmers?
Tribes say the decision to reduce water flow "has more to do with potatoes than it does fish.”
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Kentucky floodwaters are rising again and activists blame strip mines
Coal mining provided jobs for decades but has left the land vulnerable to fatal floods.
