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Hydropower loss added 121 million metric tons of carbon emissions over 20 years — about the same as putting 1.3 million more cars on the road.
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.
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State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.
Amid soaring temperatures, Arizona has seen success with utility programs that incentivize people to turn down the AC when the power grid is stressed.
“We’re increasingly finding that it’s not true that these are just ecological voids where nothing is living there.”
Researchers say the U.N.'s global plastics treaty must reduce production and protect public health.
Biden's green jobs program was never what it seemed. Now it's shutting down before Trump takes office.
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