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Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
In Asheville, North Carolina, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.
Public nuisance lawsuits are testing whether companies can be held responsible for pollution after their products are sold.
A 5-year drought, a failed desalination plant, and poor planning may force the city to choose between residents and the oil and gas industry.
Years after a water crisis rocked Jackson, Mississippi, the court finds that residents have no right “to truthful information from officials.”
Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, two more years to meet federal standards.
The pilot will test parametric insurance, which pays out quickly after agreed-upon “triggers” – such as wind speeds or river heights – reach a certain level.
At many of these facilities, flooding from heavy storms has the potential to jeopardize patient care, block access to emergency rooms, and force evacuations.
“No matter what happens we will stand, and we will fight, and we will keep pushing for solutions.”
