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Topic: Pollution (page 7)

A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

EPA is tackles pollution in Cancer Alley

Kate Yoder - Grist
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How restaurant chains can cut pollution

Joseph Winters - Grist
Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

Gas company keeps illegal pipe running

Jena Brooker - Grist
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

Our misguided obsession with traffic

Brian Ladd - Undark
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Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

Space junk will give Earth a ring

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic bag vacuum-sealed short ribs (Getty Images/Annick Vanderschelden Photography)

There's plastic in your meat

Matthew Rozsa
A bulldozer moves sand as oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on October 3, 2021 in Huntington Beach, California. The spill forced the closure of the popular Great Pacific Airshow with authorities urging people to avoid beaches in the vicinity. (Nick Ut/Getty Images)

The oil nightmare in the Pacific

Matthew Rozsa
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The messy truth about carbon footprints

Sam Grover - Undark
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A sad fish (Getty Images)

Swimming in a sea of drug residue

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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Congress takes steps against PFAS

Jena Brooker - Grist
Ship with thick black sooty exhaust (Getty Images)

The true cost of shipping junk

Maria Gallucci - Grist
Demosponges in a coral reef in the Caribbean Sea (Getty Images)

Cruises returns, but at what cost?

Kelly Heber Dunning - The Revelator
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Spider in web in tree branches (Getty Images)

How spider silk could save humanity

Matthew Rozsa
Shipping containers are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Container ship accidents on the rise

Tim Lydon - The Revelator
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

The next major extinction event is here

Matthew Rozsa
Ship with thick black sooty exhaust (Getty Images)

How cargo ships dump pollution into seas

Maria Gallucci - Grist
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Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP cartoon villains: Still dangerous

Chauncey DeVega
One can see the effects of a mountaintop coal removal operation on the land near Beckley, West Virginia (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Time to end the war on Appalachia

Jeff Biggers
A view of the Los Angeles city skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in California on May 31, 2015 (Getty/Mark Ralston)

4 in 10 Americans breathe polluted air

Alexandria Herr - Grist
A sign marks the location of the Rikers Correctional Center in the East River on March 9, 2021 in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

US jails & environmental hazards

Adam Mahoney - Grist
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Plastic pellets and sperm count (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Plastics are making us infertile

Matthew Rozsa
A herd of Plains Bison or buffalo grazing in Grand Teton Natonal Park in Wyoming, USA. (Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The evolution of conservation

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
Discarded used disposable medical mask floats in sea waters (Getty Images)

PPE is clogging our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Reexamining the social cost of carbon

Ramin Skibba - Undark
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