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Jena Brooker

Jena Brooker is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

A Missouri gas company figured out how to keep its illegal pipeline running

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Community food bank volunteers working during COVID-19 crisis (Getty Images)

Food banks are struggling to fill their shelves, and it’s not just supply chain issues

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the September jobs numbers in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 08, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden proposes 20-year drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site

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Congress is finally starting to do something about toxic PFAS chemicals

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A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Flood me once, shame on me. Flood me twice, shame on FEMA?

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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)

It’s raining “forever chemicals” in the Great Lakes

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