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Agents of Change: 2022-2023 Cohort

Read the ideas and solutions from our fourth cohort.


2022-2023 Cohort

How to free ourselves from the scholar-activist dilemma

environmental justice

Protecting Indigenous children means protecting water

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

sustainable coffee

Water injustice on display in the Southwest US

Navajo Nation water

A love note to brown women facing beauty injustices

beauty justice

Restoring our waters is restoring ourselves

Crow Tribe Little Bighorn River

Reducing soil toxics in community gardens

community garden

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

beauty justice

Tapping into the power of community to make informal settlements healthier

environmental justice

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

climate change protest

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

affordable housing

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

Farmworkers rights health

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

Energy justice

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

environmental justice

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

Past fellows 

2021-2022 cohort

2020-2021 cohort

2019-2020 cohort

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Supreme Court to hear case on Louisiana’s eroding coast

Local governments are suing oil companies over environmental damage. The companies want the suits moved out of state courts, to friendlier venues.
Read the Full Article on www.nytimes.com
Oil barrels on background of the flags of Venezuela and USA.
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Big Oil knows that Trump’s Venezuela plans are delusional

The president’s thinking is stuck in the 1980s.
Read the Full Article on www.theatlantic.com
A businessman handing US hundred dollar bill over to another businessman
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How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela

Chevron met with Trump and spent millions lobbying him to continue operating in Venezuela. Now it is uniquely positioned to profit from that.
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A truck drives down a muddy road next to aging oil pumps
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Satellite images reveal Venezuela’s massive methane problem

Satellite images show huge volumes of methane leaking from Venezuela’s aging oil and gas infrastructure, revealing both a major climate liability and billions of dollars in wasted fuel.

Read the Full Article on www.bloomberg.com
Indigenous protesters take part on a demonstration at COP30 in Belém, Brazil
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Australia’s Cop31 chief negotiator plans to lobby petrostates on fossil fuel phaseout

Exclusive: Chris Bowen says key to next UN climate summit will be ‘engagement, engagement, engagement’ with countries such as Saudi Arabia.

Read the Full Article on www.theguardian.com
A aerial view of water, snow, and forested land
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Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tons of CO2

Sinking felled boreal trees in the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tons of CO₂ yearly, but risks harming Arctic ecosystems.

Read the Full Article on www.newscientist.com
A puppy with its face in a dog bowl
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Carbon pawprint: Your dog’s dinner may have a greater climate impact than your own

"Premium" dog foods that use large amounts of prime meat are pushing up emissions, a new study warns.
Read the Full Article on www.euronews.com
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Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

One facility has emitted cancer-causing chemicals into waterways at levels up to 520% higher than legal limits.

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Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities

Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities

“They're terrorizing these scientists because they want to keep them silent.”

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Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

"The reality is, we are not exposed to one chemical at a time.”

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Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro speaks with the state flag and American flag behind him.

Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?

A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”

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wildfire retardants being sprayed by plane

New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

“The chemical black box” that blankets wildfire-impacted areas is increasingly under scrutiny.

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