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After the winter storm, a Texas mobile home community’s nightmare was far from over
“It was a living nightmare for everybody.”
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Here’s why Pete Buttigieg’s tax on driving isn’t ready for prime time
Taxing drivers by the mile could disproportionately burden low-income workers, rural communities, and people of color.
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Zoned out: One woman’s half-century fight to desegregate Berkeley
The legacy of race-based housing rules continues to shape the landscape of big cities.
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Dr. Robert Bullard, the ‘father of environmental justice,’ is watching the movement grow up
Bullard was early to understanding the unequal environmental burdens faced by vulnerable communities.
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Can FEMA save the ‘poorest town in America’ from drowning in its own poop?
'This is a multifaceted, oppressive form of racism.'
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A groundbreaking environmental justice bill is poised to become law
Democrats who drafted the Environmental Justice for All Act are optimistic it will pass.
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Stacey Abrams helped Georgia go blue. Now she wants it to go green.
Abrams connects the dots between voting rights, transit, and the future of the planet.
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Why Hawaii’s seawalls are doing more harm than good
The sea is invading Hawaii. The military's plan to build a seawall near Pearl Harbor might make the problem worse.
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One of the most polluted counties in America is getting 40,000 more oil wells
Kern County, California, is fast-tracking new drilling projects.
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After 20 years of advocacy, Black farmers finally get debt relief
On Wednesday, Congress passed one of the most sweeping relief programs for minority farmers in the nation’s history, through a provision of President Biden’s pandemic stimulus bill.
