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How people came to believe that individual choices could save the Earth
John Javna wrote the book on personal responsibility in 1989. Then he did an about-face.
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Are fake fur and leather worse than the real thing?
Every clothing choice is a tradeoff, unfortunately.
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Another legacy of redlining: Unequal exposure to heat waves
“By separating housing policy from climate change, we’re doing a disservice to our ability to create safe spaces, particularly among those communities who don't have a choice about where to live.”
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Coal pollution turned an Appalachian creek orange. Locals are using it to make paint.
In Ohio, people have found a way to help clean up a creek.
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At the 7th Democratic debate, candidates took every opportunity to talk climate
Debate moderators may take ages to get around to climate change in these debates, but the candidates have gotten increasingly adept at weaving the issue into their answers to other questions.
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New emails show the Justice Department is helping Big Oil fight climate lawsuits
“The Trump administration wants to control all dealings concerning fossil fuels, even though the fossil fuels are harming the youth of America.”
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Here are the environmental justice stories to watch in 2020
This year promises to foreground efforts to hold the government accountable for the unequal impacts of pollution, climate change, and extreme weather.
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Photos: What D.C. really looked like when the White House was tweeting about snow
Whoever was in charge of the White House Twitter account could only have been one of three things: mistaken, lying, or hallucinating.
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‘I’ve quit drinking the water’: What it’s like to live next to America’s largest coal plant
A Georgia town welcomed America's largest coal plant. Now, residents worry it's contaminating their water.
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Is climate change showing up in the daily weather forecast? It’s complicated.
Averaged across the whole planet, climate and weather have become more aligned, but locally the two are still very much two separate things.
