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![Two children and two adults in a recycling facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bags of shredded plastic fill the room, with some spilling their contents.]()
![Two children and two adults in a recycling facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bags of shredded plastic fill the room, with some spilling their contents.]()
This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart disease-related deaths in 1 year
People in Asia are exposed to levels up to six times higher than their counterparts in the West.
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![Two people participating in a rally for the Environmental Protection Agency.]()
![Two people participating in a rally for the Environmental Protection Agency.]()
30 years of environmental justice, dismantled in 100 days
Under the Trump administration, policies to protect the communities most affected by pollution are "illegal."
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![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
Trump’s latest USDA cuts undermine his plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
The abrupt cancellation of a beloved farm-to-school grant program threatens food access, school gardens, and small farms nationwide.
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![a row of trucks and warehouse within a short distance of a neighborhood]()
![a row of trucks and warehouse within a short distance of a neighborhood]()
El eslabón no regulado de una cadena de suministro tóxica
De El Paso, Texas, a Richmond, Virginia, los almacenes están liberando óxido de etileno, una sustancia química cancerígena. Casi nadie lo sabe.
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![An aerial view of a neighborhood right next to a facility warehouse with lots of trucks]()
![An aerial view of a neighborhood right next to a facility warehouse with lots of trucks]()
The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain
From El Paso, Texas, to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.
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![People stand in protest with backs to camera, wearing capes that have slogans painted on them.]()
![People stand in protest with backs to camera, wearing capes that have slogans painted on them.]()
A Chicago law could shift where heavy industry operates — and who bears the burden of pollution
As Trump dismantles protections, the ordinance is a test case for environmental justice.
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The world is heating up. How much can our bodies handle?
Scientists put people in a heat chamber for nine hours. Here's what they learned.
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![Photo of the outside of a flooded elementary school with school buses partially submerged]()
![Photo of the outside of a flooded elementary school with school buses partially submerged]()
What makes middle school even worse? Climate anxiety.
Students have big feelings about climate change. Most teachers don’t know how to help.
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![A woman carries a sign that says]()
The US and Canada have long managed the Great Lakes together. That era could be ending.
Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.
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![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
Power companies would rather not clean their toxic messes. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish.
Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.
