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Environment
Trump’s EPA Reauthorizes Use of Herbicide Linked to Congenital Disabilities
The herbicide Atrazine is either banned or being phased out in dozens of countries due to links to risks such as cancer.
Mutual Aid Response During Fires Shows Black Lives Matter Is Building Community
Organizers protesting police in Portland quickly mobilized to provide services for those impacted by wildfires.
A New Jersey Law Makes a Clean Environment a Right. Other States Should Follow.
The far-reaching environmental justice bill acknowledges and aims to reduce harm from pollution on communities of color.
New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance in New Mexico
The Trump administration appears set to open the region to more extraction, but Navajo activists are resisting.
Trump’s Forest Management Talk Is a Ruse, Former White House Officials Say
Trump is using the baseless complaint of forest management for political purposes, former officials allege.
Indigenous Stewardship of the Land Would Help to Prevent Raging Climate Fires
A return to Indigenous practices could help better steward the land and foster greater climate resiliency.
Sanders Says Climate Disaster Is Much More Expensive Than a Green New Deal
A Green New Deal would combat the climate emergency while creating millions of good-paying jobs.
Rural Oregon Communities Are Fighting to Keep Out Big Water Bottling Companies
The corporate capture of water as a commodity and material for oil and gas drilling is receiving community pushback.
Hurricane Laura Signaled the Arrival of Climate-Intensified Toxic Disasters
Pollution will become a significantly worse consequence of climate disasters as greenhouse gas levels continue to rise.
Trump Is Conveniently Ignoring the Climate-Fueled Fires Raging in the West
Addressing the climate crisis would undermine the fantasies Trump is peddling on the campaign trail.