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As South Africa clings to coal, a struggle for the right to breathe
Residents of the nation’s most coal-intensive region are suing to force the government to clean up choking air pollution.
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How can we heal a fractured America? This Victorian-era disease detective offers clues.
By examining patterns of life and death at the neighborhood level, John Snow found solutions to the inequalities of segregation and poverty.
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Why did EPA air monitors fail to detect an oil refinery explosion?
And what else are they missing?
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What is the Indigenous landback movement — and can it help the climate?
Indigenous leaders on the growing 'landback' movement and their fight for climate justice.
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What’s behind this Colombian band’s latest dance beat? The sounds of nature.
Simón Mejía, the founder of Bomba Estéreo, has a passion for environmental justice.
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Not every American has access to basic sanitation. This leader is out to change that.
A new book calls attention to the lack of basic sanitation in the rural South.
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Voter suppression is a climate justice issue — and 2020 is the tipping point
It’s going to take everyone to address the systemic racism that enables voter suppression tactics.
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Will COVID-19 give Santa Ana officials an excuse to ignore the city’s lead crisis?
The California attorney general says the city needs to collaborate with overburdened communities to address its dangerous lead contamination.
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New York says goodbye to 6 dirty power plants and hello to working with communities
"They always have the advantage of having information that we don't have access to." Now that will change.
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For some near the Cross Bronx Expressway, COVID-19 is an environmental justice issue, too
Even as air has grown cleaner in The Bronx, a highway through its heart belches pollution researchers say may be linked to risk of death from the coronavirus.
