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![The Manchester neighborhood of Houston sits adjacent to refineries on the Houston Ship Channel.]()
![The Manchester neighborhood of Houston sits adjacent to refineries on the Houston Ship Channel.]()
Texas pledged access for non-English speakers to environmental documents and meetings. The rollout has been riddled with issues.
Environmental regulators are "trying to do the bare minimum by throwing something through Google Translate,” one advocate said.
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![red background with black and white photo of oil refinery, with binary text under photo]()
![red background with black and white photo of oil refinery, with binary text under photo]()
The little-known open-source community behind the government’s new environmental justice tool
Inside the White House’s unpublicized experiment in open governance.
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The deadly acid refineries are reluctant to quit
Hydrofluoric acid can form a deadly cloud of gas that can travel for miles.
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![Protestors hold up a sign that says stop mining indigenous land]()
![Protestors hold up a sign that says stop mining indigenous land]()
Land defenders face violence and repression. Clean energy could make it worse.
Human rights advocates faced hundreds of attacks last year. Opposition to mining was most dangerous.
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![collage: green silhouette of California with lines showing Native American treaties; orange circle with $100 bills inside; back view of woman with braids wearing a shirt that reads]()
![collage: green silhouette of California with lines showing Native American treaties; orange circle with $100 bills inside; back view of woman with braids wearing a shirt that reads]()
California offers $100 million for tribes to buy back their land. It won’t go far.
“Let’s face it, this is California: $100 million goes nowhere.”
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![Silhouette of Michigan with mining photo and ocean surface on top]()
![Silhouette of Michigan with mining photo and ocean surface on top]()
The country’s largest potash mine is coming to Michigan. Here’s why locals are worried.
The war in Ukraine has the U.S. looking for fertilizer at home. But at what cost?
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![An enormous yacht dwarfs other sailboats in a sunny harbor]()
![An enormous yacht dwarfs other sailboats in a sunny harbor]()
The climate case for seizing superyachts, Russian and otherwise
Oligarchs' superyachts emit more carbon than some Pacific Island nations.
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![Damage from a mining operation, with wind turbines in background]()
![Damage from a mining operation, with wind turbines in background]()
‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future
Climate panel calls for "rapid and deep" transition away from fossil fuels.
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![Aerial view of houses showing damage from a hurricane, most houses have blue tarps on the roofs]()
![Aerial view of houses showing damage from a hurricane, most houses have blue tarps on the roofs]()
How the US government left Lake Charles in limbo after Hurricanes Laura and Delta
The Louisiana city’s stalled hurricane recovery reveals the limits of federal disaster policy.
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![Fones Cliffs with the Rappahannock River below]()
![Fones Cliffs with the Rappahannock River below]()
Rappahannock Tribe gets 465 acres of land back on the Chesapeake Bay
The return of the land is "a historic victory for conservation and racial justice."
