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![Steps leading to a home with sewage and wastewater in the yard directly below]()
![Steps leading to a home with sewage and wastewater in the yard directly below]()
An Alabama clean water fund discriminated against Black communities, complaint alleges
The state is accused of making access to federal dollars so hard that the people who needed it most got nothing.
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![An aerial view of Thacker Pass in Northern Nevada.]()
![An aerial view of Thacker Pass in Northern Nevada.]()
Construction begins on controversial lithium mine in Nevada
Opponents say the Thacker Pass lithium project was rushed in the name of the green transition.
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![A view down a prison corridor, showing bars and cell doors.]()
![A view down a prison corridor, showing bars and cell doors.]()
Study: Extreme heat is driving deaths in US prisons
New research makes clear the link between climate change and prison mortality.
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In a growing petrochemical hub, the East Palestine derailment triggers ‘an uneasy feeling’
The Upper Ohio River Valley has been layered in industrial pollution for centuries, and residents are fed up.
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![Silhouette of the country Ukraine with a missile buried in the center and red circular lines surrounding the missile]()
![Silhouette of the country Ukraine with a missile buried in the center and red circular lines surrounding the missile]()
One year in, the toxic legacy of war in Ukraine comes into view
Forest fires, burst pipelines, and chemical waste are just some of the more than 800 instances of environmental degradation recorded since the war began.
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![black and white photo of oil refinery, with binary text under photo on blue background]()
![black and white photo of oil refinery, with binary text under photo on blue background]()
Why the White House’s environmental justice tool is still disappointing advocates
New changes “ended up making the program less focused on people of color than it originally was,” one advocate said.
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![A black smoke cloud can be seen in the distance on a sunny day. The focus shows a residential street with cars, two-story houses, powerlines, and trees without leaves.]()
![A black smoke cloud can be seen in the distance on a sunny day. The focus shows a residential street with cars, two-story houses, powerlines, and trees without leaves.]()
Can you tell if a ‘bomb train’ is coming to your town? It’s complicated.
In the wake of the Ohio train derailment, towns wonder how to avoid same fate.
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![smoke billows from a coal fired power plant]()
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Coal plant pollution can be deadly — even hundreds of miles downwind
The coal industry may be dying in the U.S., but its health impacts are not, report finds.
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![Digital collage: historic map of Mobile Bay, sign to Africatown, photo of Cudjo Lewis, and illustration of a slave ship]()
![Digital collage: historic map of Mobile Bay, sign to Africatown, photo of Cudjo Lewis, and illustration of a slave ship]()
How the seeds of environmental racism were planted in the Progressive Era
Africatown, the only U.S. community established by West Africans who survived the Middle Passage, demonstrates the long roots of environmental injustice.
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![Storm clouds gather behind a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, in Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.]()
![Storm clouds gather behind a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, in Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.]()
As Louisiana’s coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too
New levees are too late to stop the exodus for bayou villages like Pointe-aux-Chenes.
