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Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens a civil rights probe in Alabama
Advocates allege the state hindered Black residents from receiving critical federal funds.
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In Texas, oilfield companies helped to craft new waste rules for 2 years before the public got to see them
The effort to update the state’s oilfield waste disposal rules was initiated by Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright, one of the state’s top oil and gas regulators who has investments in the industry.
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![A man in a yellow shirt pushes a wheelbarrow amid mounds of debris as another man watches on.]()
A warming planet is creating a booming, and dangerous, disaster-restoration industry
Fueled by immigrant labor, the loosely regulated industry exposes workers to lethal toxins that are making them sick long after the cleanup.
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Companies are claiming to be ‘plastic neutral.’ Is it greenwashing?
Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic.
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![A woman in a green vest and jeans digs out debris on a street.]()
Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels
A new study shows disaster restoration workers, mostly refugees and immigrants, are poorly protected as top firms "pad their pockets by cutting costs."
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Environmentalists sue Utah for failing to protect the shrinking Great Salt Lake
Researchers warn that the lake may disappear in five years if water loss continues at current rates.
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Ken Paxton may be impeached, but his anti-environment legacy will live on
Opponents call the embattled Texas attorney general’s tenure “a disaster for Texas’ air, water, and climate.”
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One person stopped California’s divestment from fossil fuels — again
The state's pension funds have an estimated $14.8 billion invested in fossil fuel companies.
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Why it’s more expensive for Black towns to borrow money
"This is how your sewage gets funded, this is how your water gets funded, this is how public schools and public services are funded."
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SoCalGas said its natural gas was ‘renewable.’ Now, it’s paying penalties.
More than 95 percent of the gas the utility delivers to customers is derived from fossil fuels.
