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Plastic’s life-cycle costs overwhelmingly fall on poor countries
A new analysis finds lower-income countries pay 8 times more for plastic’s social and environmental impacts.
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![A man walks across from a grocery shop at Komati Power Station in Middelburg, South Africa]()
![A man walks across from a grocery shop at Komati Power Station in Middelburg, South Africa]()
The West wants to help developing countries transition to renewables. It’s off to a rocky start.
New initiatives to speed up emerging economies' switch from coal to clean energy are promising — and popular. But early stumbles show the process won’t be easy.
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![A woman in a baseball cap and red coveralls points to a large puddle.]()
![A woman in a baseball cap and red coveralls points to a large puddle.]()
Oil and gas companies spill millions of gallons of wastewater in Texas
Companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade, an Inside Climate News analysis found.
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![Two men manage a hos aboard a fire truck as another man looks on.]()
![Two men manage a hos aboard a fire truck as another man looks on.]()
Wisconsin cleanup shifts toxic PFAS burden to Alabama Black Belt
The 'father of environmental justice' says sending fluorinated firefighting foam to a landfill in the mostly poor, Black town of Emelle perpetuates racism.
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![illustration depicting abandoned nursing home with water damage, a window showing fallen power lines, and a lone wheelchair]()
![illustration depicting abandoned nursing home with water damage, a window showing fallen power lines, and a lone wheelchair]()
How Hurricane Ida turned a Louisiana nursing home into a living nightmare
For Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida, the storm was only the start of a deadly nightmare.
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![A collage of images featuring a young Black woman holding a selection of purple and pink flowers, two hands holding a handful of brown beans, images of the New York City skyline and urban garden plots, and a news article about environmental justice]()
![A collage of images featuring a young Black woman holding a selection of purple and pink flowers, two hands holding a handful of brown beans, images of the New York City skyline and urban garden plots, and a news article about environmental justice]()
Food justice advocates didn’t set out to save the climate. Their solutions are doing it anyway.
How New York's rich history of urban gardening connects food justice and climate mitigation.
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In California, climate chaos looms over prisons — and thousands of prisoners — in a lake bed
How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.
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Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them?
“We’re asking for something so simple. Something that could save so many lives.”
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![An oil pumpjack near a field of wind turbines.]()
![An oil pumpjack near a field of wind turbines.]()
Scientists lay out a sweeping roadmap for transitioning the US off fossil fuels
A 600-plus-page report from the National Academies of Science includes 80 recommendations for how the U.S. can achieve its target of net-zero emissions by 2050.
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![Collage of a house protected by a square border cut from a hundred dollar bill. Outside the border are trees on a fiery red background. The edges of the border are singed.]()
![Collage of a house protected by a square border cut from a hundred dollar bill. Outside the border are trees on a fiery red background. The edges of the border are singed.]()
In wildfire-prone areas, homeowners are learning they’re uninsurable
Wildfires cause billions in home damage every year. Now, insurers no longer want to take on the risk.
