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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.
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New report expounds on old problem: Lack of diversity in green groups
According to the report, “the dominant culture of the organizations is alienating to ethnic minorities, the poor, the LGBTQ community, and others outside the mainstream.”
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These young people are pioneering Appalachia’s post-coal economy
The Appalachian Transition Fellows are young people who will spend this year building diverse job opportunities in the coal-country counties that need them most.
