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Giving workers more of a chance and a choice when extreme weather hits.
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
Jacksonville residents and local grassroots organizations are working with city officials to take a markedly different approach to managing flood risks.
Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
Regulators voted last week to prohibit wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, from being discharged into the lands and water of the Delaware River Basin.
The infrastructure woes behind a water failure
Both for the people and, potentially, for the planet
