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Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
Regulators voted last week to prohibit wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, from being discharged into the lands and water of the Delaware River Basin.
The infrastructure woes behind a water failure
Both for the people and, potentially, for the planet
Activists in North Carolina allege that DuPont has for decades fouled Cape Fear River. They want the UN Human Rights Commission to hold it accountable.
Cleaner trucks will mean better air and health for overburdened communities.
Solar advocates in southwestern Virginia say being local, proving the technology works, and building a coalition to support it have been key to their success.
