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U.S. air quality has gotten better, but disparities remain
Carbon dioxide emissions aren’t the only way aviation warms the planet. Exhaust contains a host of polluting particles, from soot to nitrogen oxides.
Fueled by immigrant labor, the loosely regulated industry exposes workers to lethal toxins that are making them sick long after the cleanup.
Offshore wind projects cropped up all over the Great Lakes region in the early 2010s. By the end of the decade, all but one were gone. Developers, though still drawn to the lakes’ powerful winds, have been reluctant to return.
The state department of transportation says many of its highway projects have “no significant impact.”
Tiny particles including tire dust found in ice cores stretching back 50 years, showing global plastic contamination.
The housing market is dangerously hot.
“People have spent time bobbing their heads to our stories of this despair and not seeing it as a call to action.”
The storm is poised to be one of the largest insured loss events in U.S. history.
