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The White House's own environmental justice progress report gives little insight into the green benefits delivered to disadvantaged communities.
As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation toward health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.
Nitrogen dioxide levels near e-commerce warehouses are 20 percent higher than in other neighborhoods. It can even be measured from space.
Trump promised boom times for the U.S. oil industry. They're laying off staff and reducing spending instead.
The unprecedented deal the Shoshone-Paiute struck with a Canadian gold company will test whether mining can align with Indigenous rights.
A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it's feasible is another matter.
In Asheville, North Carolina, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.
It's only been a few weeks since the Trump administration and Missouri Republicans killed the Grain Belt Express transmission line, but it's already clear rates will go up.
Tens of thousands of Omahans have lead in their yards at levels that experts say is dangerous, especially for kids. Growing momentum to do more cleanup in what’s already the nation’s largest residential lead Superfund site now may stall.
