Climate Accountability
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Plan to stash planet-heating carbon dioxide under U.S. national forests alarms critics
Around 140 groups have called for an extension of public comment period over U.S. Forest Service proposal amid questions about safety and impact.
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![Youth climate activists waving pickets join a demonstration in New York City demanding climate action.]()
![Youth climate activists waving pickets join a demonstration in New York City demanding climate action.]()
The latest youth climate lawsuit tries a novel argument: The unique environmental vulnerability of children
Eighteen California children say the EPA fails to recognize the unique physical and mental impacts climate change has on kids.
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In EPA’s new methane rule, an innovative way to stop ‘super emitters’
Satellites and aircraft will help oil-and-gas watchdogs find and report large leaks.
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![A little girl hugs a man who's sitting on a plastic chair in a sandy yard.]()
![A little girl hugs a man who's sitting on a plastic chair in a sandy yard.]()
Indian companies are bringing one of the world’s most toxic industries to Africa. People are getting sick.
Families near battery recycling plants face “dangerous" levels of lead in their blood and in soil, testing shows.
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Plastic credits are supposed to support new cleanup projects. Do they?
Critics say they won’t work, for one of the same reasons carbon credits haven’t.
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The EPA is aiming to get rid of lead pipes in 10 years. But not in Chicago.
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.
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![An aerial view of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge spanning the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, North Carolina.]()
![An aerial view of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge spanning the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, North Carolina.]()
UN declares PFAS pollution in North Carolina a human rights violation
Its declaration marks the first time the international body has used such a framework to address the threat of “forever chemicals” in the U.S.
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![A recycling symbol with one arrow pointing down and a robot toy dog on top of it]()
Discarded toys are creating an e-waste disaster. Here’s how to stop it.
Toys that move, make noise, and light up are winding up in landfills — but they could be recycled, with better policies.
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![An older man in a plaid shirt stands next to a statue of a man.]()
The historic claims that put a few California farming families first in line for Colorado River water
Twenty families in the Imperial Valley received a whopping 386.5 billion gallons of the river’s water last year — more than three Western states. Century-old water rights guarantee that supply.
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New York calls PepsiCo’s plastic pollution a ‘public nuisance’ in first-of-its-kind lawsuit
The company's packaging was found to be the most significant contributor to plastic waste clogging the Buffalo River.
