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How air pollution and the housing crisis are connected
When you're homeless, dangerous air isn't just during wildfire season.
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![Signs warn potential homebuyers about flooding issues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.]()
![Signs warn potential homebuyers about flooding issues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.]()
FEMA’s buyout program reduces flood risk. But does it deepen segregation?
A new study shows how federal money for managed retreat may also fuel white flight.
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![Workers pour concrete for the driveway of a new home at a Pulte Homes housing development in Phoenix, Arizona.]()
![Workers pour concrete for the driveway of a new home at a Pulte Homes housing development in Phoenix, Arizona.]()
Can Phoenix grow without groundwater? Only if the price is right.
Arizona has paused new housing construction around the city, citing a water shortage.
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![Helicopter puts out fire]()
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there — unless you’re a California homeowner
State Farm blamed "rapidly growing catastrophe exposure," along with inflation and reinsurance costs, for fleeing the Golden State ahead of wildfire season.
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![Sunrun employee Gonzalo Najera carries a solar panel before installation at a home in Alamo, Calif., on Monday, May 17, 2021.]()
![Sunrun employee Gonzalo Najera carries a solar panel before installation at a home in Alamo, Calif., on Monday, May 17, 2021.]()
HUD takes on climate crisis with a new retrofit program
The federal initiative will reach only hundreds out of the 24,000 properties that need upgrades.
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![A home on stilts sits amidst coastal waters and marshlands near Grand Isle, Louisiana. The state has lost thousands of square miles of land since the 1930s.]()
![A home on stilts sits amidst coastal waters and marshlands near Grand Isle, Louisiana. The state has lost thousands of square miles of land since the 1930s.]()
Louisiana’s landmark climate adaptation program is running out of time
“We can rebuild a piece of marsh, but in 30 years, that may be the only piece of marsh there.”
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![HVAC worker kneeling to install a heat pump]()
![HVAC worker kneeling to install a heat pump]()
Ithaca bets on heat pumps in mobile homes
The upstate New York city would be one of the first in the country to tackle the energy woes of affordable housing.
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![Surfers walk along a shrinking beach in San Clemente, California, south of Los Angeles.]()
![Surfers walk along a shrinking beach in San Clemente, California, south of Los Angeles.]()
As California attempts a ‘managed retreat,’ coastal homeowners sue to stay
A legal battle in Half Moon Bay could derail the state's climate adaptation push.
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![a line of four houses reflected into a body of water]()
![a line of four houses reflected into a body of water]()
The little-known Nevada company making millions off the Western water shortage
A small Nevada company spent decades buying water. As the West dries up, it’s cashing out.
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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.
