21 February 2024

Agents of Change: 2022-2023 Cohort

Read the ideas and solutions from our fourth cohort.

EHN Staff

2022-2023 Cohort

How to free ourselves from the scholar-activist dilemma

Protecting Indigenous children means protecting water

The global food system is failing small-scale farmers — here’s how to fix it

Water injustice on display in the Southwest US

A love note to brown women facing beauty injustices

Restoring our waters is restoring ourselves

Reducing soil toxics in community gardens

It’s not just hair — fighting beauty injustice beyond the individual

Tapping into the power of community to make informal settlements healthier

Mourning family and climate change in the age of loss and damage

A radical solution to make US affordable housing healthy and community-driven

Farmworkers’ vicious cycle of precarious employment, exploitation and climate change

When a home is not a sanctuary but a sickening, expensive trap

Public lands are not neutral. We must grapple with their racist roots

Agents of Change: New fellows will focus on collaboration, impact, and justice

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Drilling geothermal well for a residential geothermal heat pump. Workers on Drilling Rig.

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Not all drilling in Texas is about oil

The state has become a hub of innovation for creating electricity using geothermal power. Just don’t call it renewable.

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www.nytimes.com

visualization of big data digital data streams in a data center

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NextEra teams with Google, Exxon in massive AI build-out

The largest U.S. renewable energy developer announced deals with companies that could bolster gas at data center hubs across the country.

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www.eenews.net

$Aerial view of Marcellus Shale fracking well in Pennsylvania$

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Pennsylvania will study a plan to keep new natural gas pads farther from homes, schools and hospitals

Advocates say more distance is needed to protect public health. Industry groups and Republican legislators say the rule change would effectively ban natural gas development.

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insideclimatenews.org

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‘Complete roller coaster’: EPA probationary staff returns to work

Employees said uncertainty still looms as restructuring of the agency by the Trump administration takes hold.

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www.eenews.net

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Recent droughts hit the top cattle counties hardest

The nation’s cattle inventory is at its lowest level in decades, the result of a long-term decline that has been pushed even lower in recent years by drought.

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investigatemidwest.org

An inflatable boat pulled up to an icy shore

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The secret world of Arctic Ocean DNA

Researchers mapping and digitizing Arctic Ocean DNA believe it may offer a new, better way to detect changes in local wildlife populations, Arctic diseases and marine die-offs

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thenarwhal.ca

An illustration of a burning sun falling below the horizon

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Bill McKibben: A low point of human inaction on climate change

The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.

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www.newyorker.com