Climate Equity
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Your state’s air pollution might be coming from another state’s power plants
Air pollution from power plants caused 16,000 premature deaths in 2014, often traveling across state lines.
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Candidates are finally talking about environmental justice. Advocates want more than words.
"We want the tap dance to stop," one grassroots organizer told Grist.
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Why Obama’s plans to clean up coal ash barely got off the ground
Obama’s 2015 regulations of toxic waste from coal plants were historic, but they barely got off the ground.
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Green orgs say they care about diversity. Why won’t they act like it?
Fewer than 4 percent of green groups are sharing data on their staff makeup.
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The irony of blaming inhalers for climate change
A new study suggests asthmatics switch to “green inhalers”
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A year ago, this island was hit with the worst U.S. storm since 1935. What happened next?
Last October, Super Typhoon Yutu wreaked havoc on Saipan. Today, residents still struggle — and no one feels it more than the kids.
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New study pinpoints the places most at risk on a warming planet
Habitat destruction will have devastating consequences for people, too.
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On Chicago’s South Side, a community rises again
Newly minted MacArthur “genius” Emmanuel Pratt nurtures a neighborhood’s deep roots and promising new beginnings.
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India doesn’t have to lead on climate. It should anyway.
The responsibility ought to lie with the biggest polluters. But the most affected might be willing to act first.
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Indigenous women traveled 3,000 miles to save an Alaskan forest from Trump
“We couldn’t be ignored.”
