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Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Every single country is failing the WHO’s new air quality standards

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The census undercounted people of color. Here’s what that means for environmental justice

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Dam Of The Chicago Drainage Canal, Joliet [Between 1880 And 1901]. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

America’s largest inland port is running out of water

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Workers make last minute preparations for the Super Bowl as viewed from the lake at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The NFL tried to make this year’s Super Bowl its greenest yet. Inglewood residents aren’t impressed

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2021 was a landmark year for energy efficiency legislation in US states

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A sign advertising an apartment for rent is displayed in a window in California (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Why renters are uniquely vulnerable to climate disasters

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Rising sea levels (freie-kreation/Getty Images)

This coastal town needs federal aid for climate adaptation. Instead it’ll get a military truck

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An offshore oil rig sits in the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 12, 2010, as cleanup continues on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

The Biden administration said its drilling-lease spree in the Gulf was court-ordered. It wasn’t

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Homes remain flooded as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Who gets help after a hurricane or flood? FEMA will start tracking it by race

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

Black and Latino neighborhoods pay more for energy despite far lower emissions

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Climate change expected to cause 400 toxic California sites to flood by 2100

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Rep. Debra Haaland (D-NM), President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource, at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)

Deb Haaland is taking on racist names on federal lands

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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (Getty Images)

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice faces justice for coal crimes in Kentucky

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A pall of smog lies over the Los Angeles skyline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

After years of delays, Southern California’s new smog regulation promises to save lives

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A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

The environmental justice fight to block the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles

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Damage in the city of Pointe-Aux-Chenes, near montegut, Louisiana on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - The death toll from Hurricane Ida was expected to climb "considerably," Louisiana's governor warned Monday, as rescuers combed through the "catastrophic" damage wreaked as it tore through the southern United States as a Category 4 storm. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Hurricane Ida and the coming eviction crisis

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Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Tall buildings: Good for the housing crisis, bad for the climate crisis

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Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

A new way to protect the Amazon: COVID vaccines

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The waters of Lake Michigan crashes over the pedestrian walk as fog rolls through the Chicago skyline in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Your city is more segregated than it was in 1990, new study shows

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In America’s cities, inequality is engrained in the trees

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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)

America’s biggest jails are frontline environmental justice communities

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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, left, listens as State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs speaks about the state's continued efforts in dealing with COVID-19 (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi is lifting COVID restrictions while thousands of residents can’t even wash their hands

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Bill Clinton (Getty/Stephen Jaffe)

What Biden could learn from Bill Clinton’s unfinished work on environmental justice

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