Articles by Staff Writer Joseph Winters
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Air pollution takes away billions of years of life expectancy — and many countries aren’t doing enough about it
Researchers say polluted air is the “greatest risk to global health."
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EPA might water down its cleanup standards for Seattle’s only river
A proposal from the agency has raised environmental justice concerns among residents of the Duwamish Valley.
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North America’s very wet weekend bears the fingerprints of climate change
From Tropical Storm Henri to floods in Tennessee, here’s how rising temperatures are linked to extreme weather.
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A new scorecard ranked companies on environmental racism. Guess who came in last?
ExxonMobil and other oil companies got negative scores for polluting nonwhite communities.