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![People protesting the Brooklyn pipeline in New York City]()
![People protesting the Brooklyn pipeline in New York City]()
This gas utility has agreed to stop building a contentious Brooklyn pipeline — for now
Here’s why activists — and New York City — don’t see it as a win.
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The truth about Bitcoin’s energy use
Do cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin amount to climate arson or a clean-energy boon? It’s complicated.
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Cancer Alley campaigner wins Goldman Prize for environmental defenders
Sharon Lavigne, a retired special ed teacher, led a successful campaign to block construction of a toxic plant in Louisiana.
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![two people in white medical coats carry a blow up globe covered in bandages as they walk in front of a building with a medical logo]()
![two people in white medical coats carry a blow up globe covered in bandages as they walk in front of a building with a medical logo]()
The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change
A growing number of physicians are trying to transform the medical profession to meet the health challenges posed by climate change.
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![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
Your electric vehicle could become a mini power plant
And that could make the electrical grid work better for everyone.
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![Collage: An elephant with a large red speech bubble with an Earth in quotes]()
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Republicans care more about the climate if you speak their language
A threat to "freedom"? How a new study changed minds in the real world.
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Will history repeat in a dry Klamath Basin this summer?
This year’s drought is worse than in 2001, when political and environmental tensions exploded into the national spotlight.
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![Jordan Downs public housing in Los Angeles with a new apartment building being constructed in the background.]()
![Jordan Downs public housing in Los Angeles with a new apartment building being constructed in the background.]()
Decades after Watts revolted, the Black neighborhood is being ‘revitalized’ — but the cost is steep
Residents wonder how the most environmentally burdened place in California became one of the most vied-for plots of land in all of LA.
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![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
Detroit’s first new assembly line in 30 years will compound pollution in Black neighborhoods
Residents are fighting back against the environmental racism.
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![Illustration: White hands grabbing chunks out of planet Earth]()
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Are white people bad for the environment?
The origins of global warming are “rooted in a racism of ‘I know better.’”
