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A plastics company tried to stop a Juneteenth commemoration at a slave burial site

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MONTREAL, QC - SEPTEMBER 27: Led by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C), young activists and their supporters rally for action on climate change on September 27, 2019 in Montreal, Canada. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in what could be the city's largest climate march. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

For indigenous protesters, defending the environment can be fatal

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

Gas-powered appliances may be hazardous for your health: study

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The theme for this year’s Times Square ball drop? Climate change.

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Time is running out for Cuomo to make New York’s ambitious climate law a reality

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FILE - In this April 14, 2016 file photo, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim speaks at the Turning the Paris Climate Agreement into Action panel discussion, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the World Bank in Washington. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File) (AP)

Trump’s exit might not be the Paris Agreement’s biggest problem

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A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

These Girl Scouts are saving wild bees, one “hotel” at a time

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A picture taken on September 15, 2019 shows an Aramco oil facility near al-Khurj area, just south of the Saudi capital Riyadh. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)

The Saudi oil attack isn’t just an economic issue — it’s environmental

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Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, left, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Mary B. Neumayr, stand as EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler signs the Affordable Clean Energy Rule during a media availability at the Environmental Protection Agency, Wednesday, June 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

22 states sue the Trump administration over its climate “plan”

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FILE-This Aug. 31, 2015, file photo shows the Gemini Telescope, right, and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea near Hilo, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

The fight is heating up over telescope construction on Hawaii’s largest volcano

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A very large smokestack flare burns off flammable product after an explosion in a processing facility at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance, Calif. on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. A similar fire engulfed a Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Daily Breeze, Chuck Bennett) (AP)

Philadelphia refinery will close after fire. Now what?

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File - In this Saturday, Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, water flows down Oroville Dam's main spillway, near Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Dam it all: More than half of the world’s long rivers are blocked by infrastructure

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