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Jabari Omari, a Jackson city employee, talks with a resident while helping hand out cases of bottled water at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. (Brad Vest/Getty Images)

In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis that never ends

Lylla Younes
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)

The EPA was on the cusp of cleaning up “Cancer Alley.” Then it backed down

Lylla Younes
People wearing masks walk along the Hudson River as smoke shrouds the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the sun rises in New York City on June 8, 2023. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

How NYC officials failed to prepare for an air quality crisis

Lylla Younes
Statue Of Liberty (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

New York’s public housing is sinking — literally

Lylla Younes
Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

EPA targets cancer-causing emissions from medical sterilization facilities

Lylla Younes, Naveena Sadasivam
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC (Getty Images)

At EPA, staffing crisis clashes with expanded mission

Lylla Younes
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)

Justice Department sues major polluter in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”

Lylla Younes
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Exxon reports record profits, doubles down on fossil fuels

Lylla Younes
The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

A zero emissions future without the mining boom

Blanca Begert, Lylla Younes
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

In a new Spanish film, solar power threatens a family farm

Lylla Younes
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Switching to an electric car saves money. Unless you’re poor

Lylla Younes
Sun rises over mountains as seen from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, United States on September 3, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The past 8 years were the hottest in recorded history

Lylla Younes
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

African countries are tapping their fossil fuel wealth. Why aren’t they getting rich?

Lylla Younes
Solar panels and wind turbines (Getty Images/zf L)

In Louisiana, an electoral upset could mean a breakthrough for renewables

Emily Pontecorvo, Lylla Younes
An old American car passes through a flooded street in Havana, on September 28, 2022, after the passage of hurricane Ian. (YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

The world’s insurance bill from natural disasters this year: $115 billion

Lylla Younes
Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Saudi Arabia has a new green agenda. Cutting oil production isn’t part of it

Lylla Younes
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 finally calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

Lisa Song, Lylla Younes
A common frog with its head out of the water (Getty Images/Manuel ROMARIS)

What’s protected under the Clean Water Act? The Supreme Court is about to decide

Lylla Younes
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump’s EPA refuses to reduce pollutants linked to coronavirus deaths

Lisa Song, Lylla Younes