Climate Equity
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![Black and white picture of the front of a Dollar Tree store at night]()
![Black and white picture of the front of a Dollar Tree store at night]()
The cost of toxic products? Just $1
A new report finds your dollar store savings may come with a big health cost.
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![illustration of a log cabin tilting left and sinking into ground, silhouetted pine trees on each side of the cabin, with the Northern Lights in a dark sky and puddles on ground reflecting the sky]()
![illustration of a log cabin tilting left and sinking into ground, silhouetted pine trees on each side of the cabin, with the Northern Lights in a dark sky and puddles on ground reflecting the sky]()
As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing
As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing.
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![Two people repairing the interior of a home damaged by Hurricane Harvey; a pile of ruined belongings sits outside the doorway and the ceiling is exposed showing insulation]()
![Two people repairing the interior of a home damaged by Hurricane Harvey; a pile of ruined belongings sits outside the doorway and the ceiling is exposed showing insulation]()
5 years after Hurricane Harvey, many in Houston are still waiting for help
Texas turned disaster aid for Harvey into a competition. Guess who’s losing out?
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![Photo of oil pumpjack in residential area with houses and palm trees overlaid on top of vintage map showing redlined neighborhoods in Los Angeles]()
![Photo of oil pumpjack in residential area with houses and palm trees overlaid on top of vintage map showing redlined neighborhoods in Los Angeles]()
Historically redlined neighborhoods have twice the number of oil and gas wells
A new study reveals the link between structural racism and pollution.
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![EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a]()
![EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a]()
EPA to investigate racial discrimination in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Complaints allege that industrial facilities have discharged “excessive levels” of carcinogenic chemicals in a majority-Black community.
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![red background with black and white photo of oil refinery, with binary text under photo]()
![red background with black and white photo of oil refinery, with binary text under photo]()
The little-known open-source community behind the government’s new environmental justice tool
Inside the White House’s unpublicized experiment in open governance.
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![Fones Cliffs with the Rappahannock River below]()
![Fones Cliffs with the Rappahannock River below]()
Rappahannock Tribe gets 465 acres of land back on the Chesapeake Bay
The return of the land is "a historic victory for conservation and racial justice."
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![A man installing large blocks of insulation in a ceiling]()
![A man installing large blocks of insulation in a ceiling]()
Biden administration lines up $3 billion so low-income families can retrofit their homes
The move will affect nearly a half million households and lower greenhouse gas emissions
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![a person in a hat winces as a woman in blue gloves gieves him a shot]()
![a person in a hat winces as a woman in blue gloves gieves him a shot]()
Deaths have spiked in this polluted port community. COVID is only part of the story.
Wilmington, California, has experienced hundreds more deaths than it does on average. Power, pollution, and poverty all play a role.
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![an oil refinery with lots of industrial equipment]()
![an oil refinery with lots of industrial equipment]()
How a California port community embodies the deadly link between pollution and gun violence
Hundreds of people have been shot and killed in the industrial corridors of Wilmington, California.
