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![Collage: dark background with barely visible American flag and a pile of burning trash with smoke rising up and partially obscuring a silhouette of lungs]()
![Collage: dark background with barely visible American flag and a pile of burning trash with smoke rising up and partially obscuring a silhouette of lungs]()
Twice Burned
How the U.S. military’s toxic burn pits are poisoning Americans — overseas and at home
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![Michal Freedhoff speaks to the House Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the Committee on Oct. 27, 2021.]()
![Michal Freedhoff speaks to the House Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the Committee on Oct. 27, 2021.]()
She’s supposed to protect Americans from toxic chemicals. First, she just has to fix Trump’s mess and decades of neglect.
Biden promised to prioritize people over polluters. His pick to deliver that, Michal Freedhoff, is facing a bare-bones budget, demoralized staff, and increasingly angry advocates.
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![Cup of dirty water with collage of pipe and barrels leaking black liquid that is seeping into the ground]()
![Cup of dirty water with collage of pipe and barrels leaking black liquid that is seeping into the ground]()
New Jersey could be opening new front in war for clean water
Civil suit against legacy polluters aims to help frontline community with groundwater contamination.
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![Emergency crews search through the flattened Mayfield Consumer Products building on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky.]()
![Emergency crews search through the flattened Mayfield Consumer Products building on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky.]()
Climate change is making jobs deadlier — and OSHA can’t take the heat
The agency was chartered almost 20 years before the first Congressional hearing on climate change.
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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.
