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![Resident Mirian Medina stands on her property about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico]()
![Resident Mirian Medina stands on her property about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico]()
Trump apparently proposed ‘selling’ Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Former Homeland Security Secretary Elaine C. Duke told the New York Times that Trump floated the possibility of "selling" and “divesting” the territory.
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![Al Gore at at inconvenient sequel]()
Global warming. Inequality. COVID-19. And Al Gore is … optimistic?
As vice president, he looked for big policy answers to hard global problems. Now he says all our crises are speeding us toward real solutions.
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![Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden shaking hands]()
![Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden shaking hands]()
The plan meant to unite Biden and Bernie voters on climate is finally here
The only pipeline that it mentions is the “diverse pipeline of talent” the government should help create for clean energy jobs.
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Republican lawmakers’ familiar blame game hangs COVID’s spread on young people
As with climate change, coronavirus is becoming a story of boomers versus millennials.
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House Democrats finally have a goddamn climate plan
“What happens next — for racial equality, for public health, for the climate crisis — depends on us.”
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Activists shut down these cancer-causing plants. COVID is bringing them back.
A common chemical used to sterilize medical equipment is poisoning communities around the U.S.
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![A collaged image of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez speaking behind a sign saying]()
![A collaged image of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez speaking behind a sign saying]()
This week’s primaries bode well for the Green New Deal
Early results show progressives are doing surprisingly well in Kentucky and New York.
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![A car at a crossroads leading to a clean city and a city covered in smog]()
![A car at a crossroads leading to a clean city and a city covered in smog]()
COVID-19 is ‘killing transit.’ Will it permanently change how we get around?
Now that states are reopening, it's time to rethink how we get around.
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The 2020 Republican platform: Make America 2016 again
RNC to outdated party platform: ‘Never change.’
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![Natural gas fueled electricity generating power plant near Hermiston Oregon. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)]()
![Natural gas fueled electricity generating power plant near Hermiston Oregon. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)]()
EPA said giving polluters a pass protected its workers. Its own union says that’s gaslighting.
Tensions are boiling over as the EPA looks to reopen regional offices.
