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Decades-old pollution loophole still burns people of color and the poor
Environmental justice advocates have called on President Obama to crack down on refineries that knowingly dump on their human neighbors. It’s been a long time coming.
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Cowboys and Indians stage a feisty Keystone XL protest
An alliance of Native Americans, ranchers, and farmers stormed the National Mall -- not your usual anti-pipeline rally.
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How a cop’s blows turned Richmond’s Andres Soto into a climate activist
In Richmond, Calif., Chevron always pulled the strings -- till a group of progressives started fighting back. Here's how all that started.
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Diversity? Inclusion? Let’s talk about racism first
Getting kids of color into the outdoors alone can't remake our environmental institutions. We need to understand that the lack of diversity is a symptom of deeper problems.
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Oregon tells rail companies to keep oil deliveries secret
A newspaper won the right to see reports about trains carrying crude. So state officials told rail companies to stop sending in the reports.
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Vermont will label genetically engineered food
The state's rule -- the first in the nation -- faces likely challenges in court, and could be overridden by a federal law.
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Minnesota can’t say no to coal power, judge rules
A Minnesota law aims to reduce fossil fuel use. Coal plants in North Dakota said no fair, and a federal court agreed, striking down part of the law.
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Climate change got you down this Earth Day? Time for a badger mask
Hopelessness peddler Paul Kingsnorth keeps winning attention for his Dark Mountain project, but his climate fatalism looks more like midlife-crisis posturing than insight.
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Wanna know what’s happened to the Gulf Coast since the BP spill? Read this blog, now
The Bridge the Gulf blog is hands-down the best source of post-spill news and insight, written by locals who have a stake in the recovery.
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Vermont poised to mandate GMO labels on food
It will soon be the third state to require labels on genetically modified food -- and the first state willing to go there even if other states don't.
