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A shortage of potable water and the toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants the flood left behind has prompted a race to avert a public health crisis in North Carolina.
“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.
Restaurants in Petaluma are collaborating on a novel experiment to reduce plastic waste.
Yet governments are still pouring $7 trillion into subsidies for fossil fuels.
The Trump administration wants to fast-track logging in the Black Hills. What could go wrong? A lot, say tribes, scientists, and conservationists.
As the planet warms, laborers need special clothes to cope. But they also need government protections.
There’s no solid evidence that framing the global problem as a local one prompts people to act. So what does?
A federal court has revoked a key permit for Sempra Energy, whose LNG facility could worsen pollution in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
That's at least 10 times what's currently available.
