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![A truck turns onto a road carting a shipping container from a port.]()
![A truck turns onto a road carting a shipping container from a port.]()
Electrify everything, California says — including trucks and trains
The unprecedented regulations will tackle air pollution and carbon emissions at the same time.
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![digital collage of paper mill and buildings with river and billboard set against background of mountains]()
As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices
On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.
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After a Houston-area chemical fire, toxic benzene lingered for weeks, endangering residents
Pollution from the 2019 fire remained elevated long after shelter-in-place warnings ended, according to an analysis of previously unreported air and monitoring data.
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For years, the EPA and Texas ignored warning signs at a chemical storage site. Then an inferno erupted.
Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.
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![U.S. President Joe Biden is surrounded by environmental justice advocates and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he signs an executive order addressing environmental justice issues in the Rose Garden of the White House.]()
![U.S. President Joe Biden is surrounded by environmental justice advocates and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he signs an executive order addressing environmental justice issues in the Rose Garden of the White House.]()
New Biden executive order takes aim at environmental injustice
Past and present pollution will now be taken into account before new industry moves into already beleaguered neighborhoods.
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How a looming El Niño could fuel the spread of infectious disease
The oceanic phenomenon could lead to more pathogen-carrying mosquitoes, bacteria, and toxic algae.
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![Smog hanging over LA skyline in 2020]()
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1 in 3 Americans breathe unhealthy air, new report says
The American Lung Association finds that U.S. air quality is improving, but wildfires, drought, and inequality threaten progress.
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![A woman in khakis and a button down shirt and short gray hair stares at an oil plant across a stretch of grass.]()
![A woman in khakis and a button down shirt and short gray hair stares at an oil plant across a stretch of grass.]()
What happens when a Black enclave is built by Big Oil
A century after the oil industry attracted Black families to Beaumont, Texas, residents are left battling a climate, housing, and health crisis.
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![Image of a gas pump with an ethanol symbol on it.]()
![Image of a gas pump with an ethanol symbol on it.]()
Midwestern leaders want to sell ethanol in summer despite smog risks
Ethanol was sold for years as a “climate-friendly” fuel, but research says it could harm the planet and your health.
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![East Palestine Ohio derailment cleanup]()
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In East Palestine, a nightmare that never ends
For the rural Ohio town, it’s another day, another toxic spill as a cleanup truck carrying its contaminated soil overturns on a local highway.
