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After 93,000 people were exposed to jet fuel-laced water, federal officials are finally cleaning up a leaking petroleum storage facility.
“There’s this stigma that if you’re homeless, then you’re useless. But collecting bottles and cans — it is work."
From California to the Congo, policymakers have long sacrificed Indigenous peoples in the name of conservation.
The aim is to draw key minerals, including lithium and magnesium, from ocean water, desalination plant residue, and industrial waste brine.
Shareholder advocacy groups have already won plastics-related concessions from companies including Disney, Hormel, and Choice Hotels.
But what would change if we added a number to the hurricane scale?
New changes “ended up making the program less focused on people of color than it originally was,” one advocate said.
Patrick Brown is trying to tell a complicated story about climate change. Many don't want to hear it.