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![Jordan Downs public housing in Los Angeles with a new apartment building being constructed in the background.]()
![Jordan Downs public housing in Los Angeles with a new apartment building being constructed in the background.]()
Decades after Watts revolted, the Black neighborhood is being ‘revitalized’ — but the cost is steep
Residents wonder how the most environmentally burdened place in California became one of the most vied-for plots of land in all of LA.
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![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
Detroit’s first new assembly line in 30 years will compound pollution in Black neighborhoods
Residents are fighting back against the environmental racism.
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![Collage: A woman and man sitting on top of a speech bubble shape with a wildfire in the background]()
![Collage: A woman and man sitting on top of a speech bubble shape with a wildfire in the background]()
During wildfires and hurricanes, a language gap can be deadly
The importance of translating emergency warnings is often a lesson learned too late.
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![An empty school hallway with an orange color overlay]()
![An empty school hallway with an orange color overlay]()
Remember snow days? Today’s kids get heat days.
America’s schools are underprepared for the worst impacts of climate change.
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![Illustration: Two First Nations men in a red canoe harvesting wild rice, with a pipeline under the water]()
![Illustration: Two First Nations men in a red canoe harvesting wild rice, with a pipeline under the water]()
The Line 3 pipeline protests are about much more than climate change
Indigenous treaty rights may be key to protecting Minnesota’s wild rice waters from oil spills.
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![Vice President Kamala Harris giving a speech in Guatemala City]()
![Vice President Kamala Harris giving a speech in Guatemala City]()
Kamala Harris told migrants ‘do not come’ but didn’t address the biggest cause of displacement
The government’s plan to tackle immigration has a hurricane-sized hole in it.
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![Collage: an oil pumpjack with a rainbow flag mounted on top of it symbolizing]()
![Collage: an oil pumpjack with a rainbow flag mounted on top of it symbolizing]()
Big Oil is awash in rainbows for Pride Month
Forget "greenwashing." Oil companies are going all Roy G. Biv.
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![Fire blazing in the backgroud with two hot shot silhouetted in the foreground as they attempt to fight California wildfires]()
![Fire blazing in the backgroud with two hot shot silhouetted in the foreground as they attempt to fight California wildfires]()
How federal agencies are failing their wildland firefighters
Wildland firefighters protect us. But are we taking care of them?
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![Two people in black face masks and green APEN t-shirts look to the left on the camera. They are wearing plastic gloves on their hands.]()
![Two people in black face masks and green APEN t-shirts look to the left on the camera. They are wearing plastic gloves on their hands.]()
From pollution to policing, this Asian-American group is expanding environmental justice in the Bay Area
"Environmental justice is about who we can call community, and what access we have to the environment around us.”
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![A picture of Minneapolis skyline featuring a park in front of downtown skyscrapers.]()
![A picture of Minneapolis skyline featuring a park in front of downtown skyscrapers.]()
Who gets a park?
Cities are finally being analyzed for the equity of their green space.
