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![US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a briefing on community climate action alongside Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Eli Allen, Senior Program Director of Civic Works Baltimore, and Kristal Hansley, CEO and Founder of WeSolar, at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, July 14, 2023.]()
![US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a briefing on community climate action alongside Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Eli Allen, Senior Program Director of Civic Works Baltimore, and Kristal Hansley, CEO and Founder of WeSolar, at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, July 14, 2023.]()
These ‘green banks’ are getting billions to decarbonize disadvantaged communities
The Biden administration just distributed $20 billion in IRA funding to loan to individuals and communities across the country.
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![Amazon bag with trash in background]()
![Amazon bag with trash in background]()
As Amazon eliminates plastic packaging abroad, it’s using even more in the US
A new report finds Amazon has reduced plastic packaging the most in countries with stringent regulations.
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![A worker on roof reaches out for a solar panel being handed to him by another worker.]()
![A worker on roof reaches out for a solar panel being handed to him by another worker.]()
How big-box stores and schools can help marginalized communities go solar
Installing solar arrays on commercial and public buildings could bring renewable energy to two-thirds of the nation's disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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![Sticky notes on a glass window that say energy availability and PSC elections as people stand around in the background.]()
![Sticky notes on a glass window that say energy availability and PSC elections as people stand around in the background.]()
Grist launches community engagement project on energy in Georgia
The newsroom worked with partners to host listening sessions, and will create online and printed resources and launch a paid journalism training program.
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![Crews on a ridgeline prepare to install a huge rotor on a wind turbine on Altamont Pass in the San Francisco Bay Area.]()
![Crews on a ridgeline prepare to install a huge rotor on a wind turbine on Altamont Pass in the San Francisco Bay Area.]()
US experienced staggering growth in solar and wind power over the last decade
Nearly a quarter of the nation's grid now runs on renewables, bringing the country closer to its climate goals.
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![A trash can floats through the Trent Court public housing project in New Bern, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in September 2018.]()
![A trash can floats through the Trent Court public housing project in New Bern, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in September 2018.]()
North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.
Documents show how federal paperwork delayed the state’s recovery from Hurricane Florence and left low-income renters in the lurch.
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![Steel mills along a lake on a stormy day]()
![Steel mills along a lake on a stormy day]()
The EPA wanted to clean up steel mills. Then a group of Rust Belt senators got involved.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
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Indigenous peoples’ climate labor benefits everyone. Should it be paid?
“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.”
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![An electric Rivian delivery truck at an Amazon distribution facility in Aurora, Colorado.]()
![An electric Rivian delivery truck at an Amazon distribution facility in Aurora, Colorado.]()
The EPA’s push to clean up trucking goes way beyond 18-wheelers
Delivery trucks, school buses, and other short-haul vehicles will electrify much faster than big rigs, easing air pollution in urban neighborhoods.
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![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help
Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.
