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Conservationists need to get out of the woods — and get serious about diversity
A new report finds that environmental groups, foundations, and government agencies have made little progress over the decades to include people of color, poor people, and others outside of the white middle class.
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President Obama is beginning to make climate-hawk noises
In a new interview with The Economist, the president sounds more engaged with the climate issue -- and more dismissive of denialism -- than we've come to expect.
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Why R.E.M. made the most politically important album of all time
I thought that I heard you laughing, but here's why you should take that bold claim seriously.
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse schools climate deniers in Senate, drops mic
Every climate-denial argument ever gets eviscerated in one place.
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The EPA’s struggle to combat water pollution
Frustration and inaction color efforts to enforce the Clean Water Act.
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This GOP candidate says he’s cracking down on coal pollution — but green groups say that’s BS
The political fallout continues from the Dan River coal-ash disaster in North Carolina.
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Are there two different versions of environmentalism, one “white,” one “black”?
1970s scholars posited that an “apartheid ecology” excluded people of color from environmentalism. Were they right?
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At this year’s big climate rally, most of the people won’t be pale, male, and stale
The People's Climate March, planned for NYC on Sept. 21, has a diverse coalition of organizers, from healthcare unions to environmental justice groups.
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In Detroit’s water wars, a pause that refreshes
The groups fighting water-service shutoffs in Detroit take a victory lap, though what they have won so far is highly provisional.
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A century ago, Detroit’s “potato patch mayor” knew how to ride out hard times
How can a city's distant past guide our search for solutions to today's problems? A statue offers some clues.
