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With electricity demand spiking, the Southern Company has opted to keep burning fossil fuels.
Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.
Climate priorities and labor standards are colliding, threatening to stall wind energy in a renewable-friendly state.
In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
The Justice Department is suing a major petrochemical company, arguing that its chemical plant in Reserve, Louisiana, poses an unacceptable risk to the health and welfare of the area’s majority-Black population.
An initiative in Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona enlists clinicians to ensure resources go to the right places during heat waves.
A data-driven disaster tool shows “bias” against rural communities.
After the fire destroyed his town in 2021, a state rep took on insurance companies, mortgage lenders, and landlords — and beat them all.
A new report finds Indigenous land rights are key to preserving biodiversity.
