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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.
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![An aerial view of Mexico City, Mexico in 2016.]()
![An aerial view of Mexico City, Mexico in 2016.]()
Mexico City could sink up to 65 feet
Due to a phenomenon called subsidence, the metropolis's landscape is compacting — and parts of the city are now dropping a foot and a half each year.
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![A man in front of his house in flooded Lake Charles, Louisiana]()
![A man in front of his house in flooded Lake Charles, Louisiana]()
Biden made this city a poster child for climate change. Then it flooded again.
Lake Charles, Louisiana, was wrecked by another storm just two weeks after President Joe Biden pledged support for disaster recovery from last year's hurricanes.
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![Hazel M. Johnson]()
Here’s why Congress is recognizing Hazel M. Johnson, the ‘mother of environmental justice’
Proposed legislation would posthumously award Johnson the Congressional Gold Medal — and her own postage stamp.
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![Photo collage of stacks of overdue bills and power lines]()
![Photo collage of stacks of overdue bills and power lines]()
America is facing unprecedented utility debt. Here’s what might help.
Unpaid power, gas, and water bills “reflect the grinding level of poverty in the United States.”
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Why electric cars are cheaper if you’re rich
What is the true cost of electric vehicles? If you can afford the up-front costs, you might just be surprised.
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![Michael Regan in front of a circular background of a Chicago scrapyard]()
![Michael Regan in front of a circular background of a Chicago scrapyard]()
This Chicago scrapyard is testing Michael Regan on environmental justice
A Southeast Side community’s fight for environmental justice just got a boost from the EPA — but the fight is far from over.
