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The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town."
After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.
Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.
There’s no solid evidence that framing the global problem as a local one prompts people to act. So what does?
The study finds that, despite their cost and other drawbacks, such programs can help small cities reach their climate goals.
The answer: try at least $500 million.
The presidential campaign bad-mouthed FEMA while using crowdfunding to donate to evangelical nonprofits.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
Unseasonably early blooms can wreak havoc on allergies, disease vectors, and agriculture.
