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environmental justice

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EEnvironment
A man on the street wipes his face with orange fabric and another pedestrian holds an umbrella to block out the sun.
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‘Heat Batteries’ Leave Some City Blocks Scorched

  • April 15, 2026
It’s about to get hotter in our nation’s cities. Just how hot it gets depends not only on…
EEnvironment
Diane Wilson sits in her tent, 14 days into her hunger strike, outside Dow’s Seadrift complex on March 16.
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A Hunger Strike Ends, but an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Corporate Polluters Marches On

  • April 13, 2026
The Resistance, Part 1: With an army of lawyers, an activist legend squares off against polluting industries along…
EEnvironment
Demonstrators march during a “Hands off the EPA” rally outside the agency’s offices in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 22, 2025. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images
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Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs

  • April 13, 2026
President Trump’s annual budget request to Congress continues his administration’s defunding of climate change programs, environmental protection and…
EEnvironment
A construction crew works on Shell’s Vito platform at the Kiewit Offshore Services complex on April 6, 2022, in Ingleside, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images
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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

  • March 28, 2026
The Trump administration is turning to the nuclear option on endangered-species protections in the name of national security.…
EEnvironment
EPA contractors remove household hazardous waste as they search through homes damaged by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., on Jan. 30, 2025. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts

  • March 8, 2026
When President Donald Trump first sought to be the Republican standard-bearer in 2016, he promised to reduce the…
EEnvironment
The 4,700-acre Seadrift Operations complex produces various plastics as well as chemicals for antifreeze, paints, detergents, shampoo and other beauty products on the Gulf Coast in Calhoun County, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News
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Dow Asks Texas to Legalize Plastic Pollution From Its Seadrift Complex

  • March 3, 2026
Two weeks ago, when Texas sued a massive Dow petrochemical plant over water pollution, state environmental regulators were…
EEnvironment
Water quality expert Bob Bowcock tests a creek for cancer-causing PFAS “forever chemicals” at a property in Dalton, Ga., on June 12, 2025. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images
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Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump

  • February 28, 2026
In a new report that outlines a dozen high-risk pollutants given new life thanks to weakened, delayed or…
HHealth care
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, speaks at the Health Action Conference on Jan. 22 in Washington, D.C. The American Public Health Association is among several health organizations involved in the suit. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Community Catalyst
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Healthcare Professionals, Scientists and Children Sue the EPA for Backtracking on Greenhouse Gas Regulation

  • February 19, 2026
Two lawsuits filed Wednesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals mark the beginning of a rocky legal…
EEnvironment
Blake Muir and his niece, Jennifer Sullivan, stand near a tank battery on his land in Gonzales County. Data shows it could come under nearly 15 feet of water in a 500-year flood. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News
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‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain

  • February 8, 2026
GONZALES, Texas—More than 500 enormous oil tanks dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River and its tributaries where…
EEnvironment
Steam rises from one of the plants near the Houston Ship Channel on Jan. 26 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images
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Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds

  • February 8, 2026
Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term,…
EEnvironment
A view of the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Mapping Unequal Climate Risks in a Northern California County

  • February 6, 2026
The Bay Area Air District kicked off the new year with a warning for residents of the nine…
MMental health
Julissa Hernandez used to run track and field as a student at Niagara Falls High School before her asthma forced her to quit. She believes the poor air quality in in the New York town contributed to her complications. Credit: Jennifer Wybieracki
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How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis

  • February 5, 2026
Julissa Hernandez was at work when she saw the news, in 2024, that a young mother, Chianti Means,…
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