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The small town of Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.
The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.
In a provocative new book, Genevieve Guenther argues that too many conversations are happening on the fossil fuel industry's terms.
Medical device warehouses can be a source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Georgia is the only state doing anything about it.
Rice plants are a big source of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts those emissions by 70 percent.
Activist investors want the company to trim its biggest source of emissions. Exxon sees that as a threat.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.
As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation toward health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.
