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![A person charges an electric vehicle]()
![A person charges an electric vehicle]()
EV chargers are coming to a highway near you
Electric utilities are banding together to build a coast-to-coast car-charging network.
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![Collage: City in a bubble with storm clouds overhead and fire below]()
![Collage: City in a bubble with storm clouds overhead and fire below]()
Fleeing global warming? ‘Climate havens’ aren’t ready for you yet.
Climate migration is already underway. Here's how cities can prepare.
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![Boston's Red Line]()
![Boston's Red Line]()
Boston’s new mayor promised free public transit. Can she make it happen?
Without state and federal buy-in, experts say fare-free transit is just "talking about dreams."
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![The Chevron facility in Richmond, California is one of more than 400 toxic facilities at risk of major flooding events by 2100.]()
![The Chevron facility in Richmond, California is one of more than 400 toxic facilities at risk of major flooding events by 2100.]()
Toxic Tides: Climate change expected to cause 400 toxic California sites to flood by 2100
Communities of color are five times more likely than the general population to live within half a mile of a toxic site that could flood.
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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
