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Los escombros de los desastres están empujando los vertederos de Puerto Rico al límite
El compostaje podría ser la solución.
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Disaster debris is pushing Puerto Rico’s landfills to the brink
Composting could be the solution.
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![Collage: people protesting poor air quality; a house with an air monitor in the yard; smokestacks with hand drawn smoke]()
Congress is spending millions on new air monitors. Will it make a difference?
The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.
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EPA finally calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
In a “remarkable” letter, the EPA accused Louisiana regulators of neglecting Black residents’ concerns about toxic air pollution.
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Hawaii to US Navy: Quit polluting our waters
A $9 million fine and a sewage leak into Pearl Harbor are just the latest in a series of water crises.
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How California’s Salton Sea went from vacation destination to toxic nightmare
And why the shrinking lake might be key to meeting America's clean energy goals.
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Unstable Ground
How thawing permafrost threatens a Biden-supported plan to drill in Alaska's Arctic.
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EPA declines stricter regulation on pesticide linked to bee die-offs
The birds and the bees and the pesticide-covered seeds that kill them.
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‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.
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The rebirth of Hiware Bazar
How a drought-stricken community in India became a “village of millionaires”
