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A newย studyย from public health researchers provides the strongest evidence yet that increased exposure to a type of air pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks that's known as fine particulate mat...
Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...
โ€œI feel like our ancestors are shouting and rejoicing in heaven about what we did for them today,โ€ Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, a community groupย fightingย petrochemical plant construc...
Byย Rachel Ramirez, Grist.ย This story originally appeared inย Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climateย st...
In April,ย U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyย (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, proposed maintaining, rather than strengthening, national air quality standards for soot, ...
On Friday, June 12, Louisiana's Democratic governorย John Bel Edwards is expected to sign off on a piece of legislation, House Bill 197, that would make it a more serious crime to trespass on Louisi...
The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying โ€œBlack Lives Matterโ€ while committing acts of environmental racism all over theย world. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appe...
On June 3, just hours before New Orleans police tear-gassed a group protesting racial violence, Jesse Perkins, a Black veteran, called out the many shades of racism and violence his community faces...
Byย Ilana Cohen, Evelyn Nieves, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, and James Bruggers, InsideClimate News.ย This story originally appeared in InsideClimate Newsย and is republished here as part of Covering...
The COVID-19 pandemic hasnโ€™t changed life much for Chris Burnet, a lifelong resident of Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among south Louisianaโ€™s wetlands. Though the island, ab...

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A newย studyย from public health researchers provides the strongest evidence yet that increased exposure to a type of air pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks that's known as fine particulate mat...
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Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...
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โ€œI feel like our ancestors are shouting and rejoicing in heaven about what we did for them today,โ€ Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, a community groupย fightingย petrochemical plant construc...
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Byย Rachel Ramirez, Grist.ย This story originally appeared inย Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climateย st...
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In April,ย U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyย (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, proposed maintaining, rather than strengthening, national air quality standards for soot, ...
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On Friday, June 12, Louisiana's Democratic governorย John Bel Edwards is expected to sign off on a piece of legislation, House Bill 197, that would make it a more serious crime to trespass on Louisi...
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The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying โ€œBlack Lives Matterโ€ while committing acts of environmental racism all over theย world. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appe...
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On June 3, just hours before New Orleans police tear-gassed a group protesting racial violence, Jesse Perkins, a Black veteran, called out the many shades of racism and violence his community faces...
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Byย Ilana Cohen, Evelyn Nieves, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, and James Bruggers, InsideClimate News.ย This story originally appeared in InsideClimate Newsย and is republished here as part of Covering...
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The COVID-19 pandemic hasnโ€™t changed life much for Chris Burnet, a lifelong resident of Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among south Louisianaโ€™s wetlands. Though the island, ab...