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He’s the only comprehensive lead tester in this contaminated neighborhood. He graduates next month.
The lack of inexpensive and comprehensive toxics testing has created a fragile public safety net in polluted towns across the country.
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![Aerial view of riverbank dwellers carrying banana produce over the dry Solimoes riverbed]()
![Aerial view of riverbank dwellers carrying banana produce over the dry Solimoes riverbed]()
The world is getting too hot to feed itself
A new U.N. report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system — and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it.
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![The LA skyline is blotted with brownish smog]()
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Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
The American Lung Association report comes amid the EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections.
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![Super Typhoon Sinlaku spins over the North Pacific Ocean in this image acquired on April 13.]()
![Super Typhoon Sinlaku spins over the North Pacific Ocean in this image acquired on April 13.]()
A ‘super typhoon’ just devastated the Mariana Islands — months before peak storm season
The storm exposes the U.S. commonwealth's climate risks, economic fragility, and federal strain.
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![A high-voltage power line runs behind a snowy construction site in Archbald, Pennsylvania.]()
![A high-voltage power line runs behind a snowy construction site in Archbald, Pennsylvania.]()
The AI boom has plunged a small Pennsylvania town into chaos
Data centers will swallow 14 percent of Archbald, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. Who's to blame is a matter of fierce debate.
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![Rev. Jesse Jackson walks in a national mile-long march to highlight the push for clean water in Flint.]()
![Rev. Jesse Jackson walks in a national mile-long march to highlight the push for clean water in Flint.]()
Jesse Jackson’s vision for America embraced environmental justice
The civil rights leader, who died earlier this week, linked segregation, pollution, and political power.
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![The Montezuma Wetlands of Solano County are seen in an aerial photograph.]()
![The Montezuma Wetlands of Solano County are seen in an aerial photograph.]()
Inside the polarizing plan to stash carbon in a California wetland
A proposal to store carbon dioxide deep below a Bay Area wetland is testing how — and where — California pursues climate solutions.
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A Nebraska utility says that its coal plant poses no ‘significant’ health threat
North Omaha residents, health experts, and two of the utility’s board members aren’t buying it.
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The Trump EPA ended the ‘green new scam.’ A year later, communities are still paying the price.
Across the country, communities that lost grants have responded in a variety of ways — suing the government, searching for other funds, or simply moving on.
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![A man stands on the edge of a river filled with coffee colored sludge]()
Louisiana town fights for relief after a billion-dollar oil disaster
Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.
