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The World Bank is running the first-ever climate reparations fund. Nobody is happy about it.
The U.S.-dominated institution has a track record of harming the very nations it purports to help.
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Climate reparations are becoming a reality. Here’s what they could look like.
Grist asked 10 countries how they would use the long-awaited “loss and damage” fund launched at COP28.
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![Youth climate activists waving pickets join a demonstration in New York City demanding climate action.]()
![Youth climate activists waving pickets join a demonstration in New York City demanding climate action.]()
The latest youth climate lawsuit tries a novel argument: The unique environmental vulnerability of children
Eighteen California children say the EPA fails to recognize the unique physical and mental impacts climate change has on kids.
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![A man in a yellow turban and shirt stands near protesters and banners with messages related to climate reparations]()
‘I’ll just eat on the way’: A climate activist’s 18-hour sprint through COP28
How Harjeet Singh spends his days trying to influence the fight to save the planet — all while running on little more than a cheese sandwich.
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The EPA is aiming to get rid of lead pipes in 10 years. But not in Chicago.
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.
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![Illustrated portrait of a white man in his 70s (Peter Martin) with an orange map of Maui and black palm trees in the background]()
![Illustrated portrait of a white man in his 70s (Peter Martin) with an orange map of Maui and black palm trees in the background]()
The libertarian developer looming over West Maui’s water conflict
Peter Martin spent decades guzzling water around Lāhainā. Then came the fire.
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Still concerned about the Dakota Access pipeline? The feds are asking for comment, 7 years later.
The controversial pipeline near Standing Rock united the climate movement. Now regulators want the public to weigh in on the project’s environmental impact.
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The liquefied natural gas boom hits a snag in Port Arthur, Texas
A federal court has revoked a key permit for Sempra Energy, whose LNG facility could worsen pollution in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
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![US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a press conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on December 17, 2009 on the 11th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference.]()
![US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a press conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on December 17, 2009 on the 11th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference.]()
The decade-old broken climate promise that looms over COP28
New data suggest wealthy countries may belatedly be providing a promised $100 billion in climate-related aid. But they’ve eroded trust in the process.
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![Amos Mwangi and Paul Wanja, members of Nakuru County Waste Pickers Association, work at the Gioto dumping site in Nakuru, Kenya, on November 8, 2023.]()
![Amos Mwangi and Paul Wanja, members of Nakuru County Waste Pickers Association, work at the Gioto dumping site in Nakuru, Kenya, on November 8, 2023.]()
How waste pickers are fighting for recognition in the UN global plastics treaty
"Private companies are not capable of extracting anywhere near the amount of recyclables that reclaimers are."
