Climate Health
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![Collage of bed floating in air with an earth that is on fire underneath it]()
![Collage of bed floating in air with an earth that is on fire underneath it]()
Study: Warming temperatures are eroding our ability to sleep
Climate change is keeping us up at night in more ways than one.
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![Aerial view of forest, wetlands, and river]()
![Aerial view of forest, wetlands, and river]()
In Minnesota, the PolyMet mine pits renewable energy needs against tribes and the EPA
The PolyMet Mining Corporation has been locked in a battle to open Minnesota’s first copper-sulfide mine for over 17 years.
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![Cars and motorbikes drive through heavy smog, with birds in the foreground amid heavy pollution.]()
![Cars and motorbikes drive through heavy smog, with birds in the foreground amid heavy pollution.]()
Report: Pollution is connected to 9 million deaths worldwide each year
World governments have made "strikingly little effort" to solve the problem.
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Ohio residents fight to get radioactive oil and gas waste off their roads
At least 13 states allow drilling waste to be used for road de-icing, dust suppression, and maintenance.
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![Female hand holding positive pregnancy test layered on top of torn United States constitution and refinery smokestacks silhouetted on bright yellow in the background]()
![Female hand holding positive pregnancy test layered on top of torn United States constitution and refinery smokestacks silhouetted on bright yellow in the background]()
What overturning Roe v. Wade means for pregnant people in pollution hotspots
Communities near polluting sites tend to be disproportionately lower income and people of color — populations that are more likely to need abortion care in the first place.
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![animated collage of hydropower dam connected to a dark silhouette of New York City that flickers from dark to lit up windows]()
![animated collage of hydropower dam connected to a dark silhouette of New York City that flickers from dark to lit up windows]()
A New York power line divided environmentalists. Here’s what it says about the larger climate fight.
States waited too long to decarbonize, and now they have to make tough choices.
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Environmental justice law in New York could prevent new pollution in hard-hit neighborhoods
The state joins New Jersey in passing toughest legislation in country.
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![Collage: dark background with barely visible American flag and a pile of burning trash with smoke rising up and partially obscuring a silhouette of lungs]()
![Collage: dark background with barely visible American flag and a pile of burning trash with smoke rising up and partially obscuring a silhouette of lungs]()
Twice Burned
How the U.S. military’s toxic burn pits are poisoning Americans — overseas and at home
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Study: Climate change is creating disease hotspots
“The coming decades will not only be hotter, but sicker.”
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![Emergency crews search through the flattened Mayfield Consumer Products building on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky.]()
![Emergency crews search through the flattened Mayfield Consumer Products building on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky.]()
Climate change is making jobs deadlier — and OSHA can’t take the heat
The agency was chartered almost 20 years before the first Congressional hearing on climate change.
