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![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
Your electric vehicle could become a mini power plant
And that could make the electrical grid work better for everyone.
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![Jordan Downs public housing in Los Angeles with a new apartment building being constructed in the background.]()
![Jordan Downs public housing in Los Angeles with a new apartment building being constructed in the background.]()
Decades after Watts revolted, the Black neighborhood is being ‘revitalized’ — but the cost is steep
Residents wonder how the most environmentally burdened place in California became one of the most vied-for plots of land in all of LA.
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![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
Detroit’s first new assembly line in 30 years will compound pollution in Black neighborhoods
Residents are fighting back against the environmental racism.
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![Collage: Silhouette of a supersonic plane with a spiky yellow graphic and planet Earth behind it]()
![Collage: Silhouette of a supersonic plane with a spiky yellow graphic and planet Earth behind it]()
United’s supersonic planes would be a ‘massively polluting’ disaster
The true cost of faster-than-sound aviation.
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![A firefighter walks past a burning house]()
![A firefighter walks past a burning house]()
Why California is building new houses in the path of wildfires
The housing market is dangerously hot.
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![Illustration: An electric car hooked up to a credit card and a car charger.]()
![Illustration: An electric car hooked up to a credit card and a car charger.]()
Should I go into debt to buy an electric vehicle?
Whose responsibility is it to move the EV market?
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![assembly line volkswagen germany covid]()
G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since the start of pandemic, report finds.
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![Two people in black face masks and green APEN t-shirts look to the left on the camera. They are wearing plastic gloves on their hands.]()
![Two people in black face masks and green APEN t-shirts look to the left on the camera. They are wearing plastic gloves on their hands.]()
From pollution to policing, this Asian-American group is expanding environmental justice in the Bay Area
"Environmental justice is about who we can call community, and what access we have to the environment around us.”
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“Death by a thousand cuts”: How Congress continues to whittle away at a critical environmental policy
A bipartisan bill aims to rollback parts of the landmark National Environmental Policy Act.
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![A picture of Minneapolis skyline featuring a park in front of downtown skyscrapers.]()
![A picture of Minneapolis skyline featuring a park in front of downtown skyscrapers.]()
Who gets a park?
Cities are finally being analyzed for the equity of their green space.
