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Yet governments are still pouring $7 trillion into subsidies for fossil fuels.
Despite health risks, Puerto Rico keeps tax incentives in place for cancer-causing chemical polluters.
Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
As heavy rains overwhelm aging pipes, Boston and NYC are choosing very different paths forward.
Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.
The unseasonal heat in Brazil is bad news for the world's supply of coffee and soybeans.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people.
A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.