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![Solar panels on roof of white house]()
![Solar panels on roof of white house]()
Black and Latino neighborhoods pay more for energy despite far lower emissions
A new study explores the rift between who gets energy benefits and who bears energy burdens.
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![Collage: Detroit skyline, a record, historic photos of Detroit and a Black owned record shop, Interstate 375]()
![Collage: Detroit skyline, a record, historic photos of Detroit and a Black owned record shop, Interstate 375]()
A freeway ripped the heart out of Black life in Detroit. Now Michigan wants to tear it down.
Highway removal is the easy part. Making reparations is where it gets complicated.
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![a paper airplane with its nose in the sand]()
![a paper airplane with its nose in the sand]()
Days after COP26, US pledge to cut aviation emissions gets rerouted
Biden’s EPA will keep a Trump-era emissions standard for airplanes — that doesn’t actually cut emissions.
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![An electric vehicle charging station sign and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe flag]()
![An electric vehicle charging station sign and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe flag]()
Midwest tribes awarded $6.6 million to build their own EV charging network
After years of battling pipelines, it's another way to fight back against fossil fuels.
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![A laborer works on a water line in California. Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill is set to make environmental justice investments commonplace.]()
![A laborer works on a water line in California. Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill is set to make environmental justice investments commonplace.]()
Here’s how the bipartisan infrastructure deal could promote environmental justice
According to the White House, the new law earmarks $240 billion for environmental justice projects — the largest such investment in U.S. history.
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![A high cliff-side road near the ocean shows signs of major breakage, with cracks coming right up the barrier of the road. Houses and powerlines are on the other side of the barrier on top of the cliff]()
![A high cliff-side road near the ocean shows signs of major breakage, with cracks coming right up the barrier of the road. Houses and powerlines are on the other side of the barrier on top of the cliff]()
Coastal Californians, prepare for the ocean to rise 10 feet by century’s end
Planners warned to start making infrastructure changes now
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![Pete Buttigieg speaks at a press conference at COP26.]()
![Pete Buttigieg speaks at a press conference at COP26.]()
At COP26, Pete Buttigieg makes a pitch to decarbonize American transport
The Secretary of Transportation on the U.S.'s electric vehicle future.
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![A silhouette of a young boy backdrops a plume of smoke rising from a refinery.]()
![A silhouette of a young boy backdrops a plume of smoke rising from a refinery.]()
After years of delays, Southern California’s new smog regulation promises to save lives
The new regulation is expected to prevent nearly 400 premature deaths over the next 15 years.
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![Police and the county coroner investigate a deadly car crash.]()
![Police and the county coroner investigate a deadly car crash.]()
20,000 deaths and counting: As mass transit stagnates, US traffic deaths surge
"People that are walking and driving in cities and towns across the country are really at risk."
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![An electric vehicle plugged into a charging station.]()
![An electric vehicle plugged into a charging station.]()
Congress is poised to fix the most annoying thing about buying an electric car
The new EV tax credit would be $12,500 — and refundable.
