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Cargo ships are cleaning up smog — by dumping pollution into the seas
How a fix for air pollution leads to tons of contaminated water.
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Here’s why Congress is recognizing Hazel M. Johnson, the ‘mother of environmental justice’
Proposed legislation would posthumously award Johnson the Congressional Gold Medal — and her own postage stamp.
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Should customers be able to repair their devices? This federal agency says yes.
Tech lobbyists say letting people fix their own stuff is too dangerous. The Federal Trade Commission isn't buying it.
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The EPA just accused Missouri’s environmental agency of violating the Civil Rights Act
The findings are the latest example of how the Biden administration is prioritizing environmental justice.
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ExxonMobil found the real reason for the climate crisis: You
How oil companies used language to make us blame ourselves.
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Sustainable brewing may provide a model for a circular economy
How saved grains from the brewing process are being made into novel, nutritious ingredients.
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America is facing unprecedented utility debt. Here’s what might help.
Unpaid power, gas, and water bills “reflect the grinding level of poverty in the United States.”
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How to have the trash talk with your neighbors
Something about garbage disposal triggers emotional chaos and defies social cohesion.
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After a Trump-length pause, the EPA is relaunching a major climate change report
Drawing on data from 50 government agencies, the EPA has published 54 indicators of global warming.
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![Four years after then California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an executive order to lift the California's drought emergency, the state has re-entered a drought emergency with water levels dropping in the state's reservoirs. Water levels at Lake Oroville have dropped to 42 percent of its 3,537,577 acre foot capacity. The lake is a sliver of blue between arid hills of exposed lakebed.]()
![Four years after then California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an executive order to lift the California's drought emergency, the state has re-entered a drought emergency with water levels dropping in the state's reservoirs. Water levels at Lake Oroville have dropped to 42 percent of its 3,537,577 acre foot capacity. The lake is a sliver of blue between arid hills of exposed lakebed.]()
Two-thirds of California’s counties are in a drought emergency. Get used to it.
Water scarcity is now a permanent feature.
