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Is climate anxiety a pressing problem, or a luxury?
Concerns about our future are valid — but they aren't always shared by those who are fighting to survive in the present.
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Climate change is destroying American homes. Who should have to move?
It’s unfair to force people out of their homes. We have to do it anyway.
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A new salvo in the fight to protect the ‘holy grail’ of environmental justice
Residents and legal advocates ask the EPA to keep enforcing Title VI civil rights protections.
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Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons
There’s been a proliferation of data-driven mapping tools that illuminate disparities in environmental harm, but they do little to compel suitable solutions — especially for incarcerated people.
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![An aerial photograph of a path windy through forested land. Some trees have been cut down]()
![An aerial photograph of a path windy through forested land. Some trees have been cut down]()
How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations
“There's definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands."
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Can the US census keep up with climate-driven displacement?
Four years after a string of disasters plagued one Louisiana town, its residents are still on the move.
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![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
![A person stands on a city street wearing a helmet and talking to another person, also helmeted, on a bike, with another bike with a red bag with the letters GH on it in the foreground]()
NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection
"We risked our health for the delivery companies during COVID, and now we are doing it again."
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![An evacuee from Hurricane Katrina sits on his cot while on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome September 7, 2005 in Houston, Texas.]()
![An evacuee from Hurricane Katrina sits on his cot while on the floor of the Reliant Astrodome September 7, 2005 in Houston, Texas.]()
They settled in Houston after Katrina — and then faced a political storm
The backlash against an effort to resettle 200,000 evacuees holds lessons for future disasters.
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![A house sits along the long stretch of he Mississippi River and many chemical plants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.]()
![A house sits along the long stretch of he Mississippi River and many chemical plants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.]()
Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’
The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit.
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Mississippi officials saw the Jackson water crisis coming — and did nothing
A new report from the EPA inspector general found the state’s health department saw evidence of elevated lead levels as early as 2015.
