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![A car that has crashed into a bus stop]()
![A car that has crashed into a bus stop]()
Car culture disproportionately kills Black Americans. The pandemic made things worse.
The number of Black people who died in traffic collisions rose by nearly a quarter last year.
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![A projected slogan protesting the fuel shipping industry]()
![A projected slogan protesting the fuel shipping industry]()
A proposal to make cargo ships pay for pollution is making waves
The shipping industry's emissions keep climbing.
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![Illustration: a hand holding a drivers license belonging to planet Earth]()
![Illustration: a hand holding a drivers license belonging to planet Earth]()
I hate cars. Should I learn to drive anyway?
Knowing how to drive — or even owning a car — doesn't automatically put you on the road to climate ruin.
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![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
The US wants to make EV batteries without these foreign metals. Should it?
Nickel and cobalt have precarious international supply chains, but eliminating them from batteries raises tough questions.
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![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
![Collage: an electric car plugged into an electric tower]()
Your electric vehicle could become a mini power plant
And that could make the electrical grid work better for everyone.
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![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
![Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.]()
Detroit’s first new assembly line in 30 years will compound pollution in Black neighborhoods
Residents are fighting back against the environmental racism.
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![Collage: Silhouette of a supersonic plane with a spiky yellow graphic and planet Earth behind it]()
![Collage: Silhouette of a supersonic plane with a spiky yellow graphic and planet Earth behind it]()
United’s supersonic planes would be a ‘massively polluting’ disaster
The true cost of faster-than-sound aviation.
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![Illustration: An electric car hooked up to a credit card and a car charger.]()
![Illustration: An electric car hooked up to a credit card and a car charger.]()
Should I go into debt to buy an electric vehicle?
Whose responsibility is it to move the EV market?
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G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since the start of pandemic, report finds.
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“Death by a thousand cuts”: How Congress continues to whittle away at a critical environmental policy
A bipartisan bill aims to rollback parts of the landmark National Environmental Policy Act.
