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Why is Texas allocating funds for reducing air emissions to widening highways?

Environmental activists applaud funding increases but wonder why some money is going for road expansion. And why, they ask, is there no focus on environmental justice?

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Has the Ascend nylon plant in Florida cut its greenhouse emissions, as promised?
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Has the Ascend nylon plant in Florida cut its greenhouse emissions, as promised?

Greenhouse gas emissions from a single chemical plant that manufactures nylon in northern Florida were greater than the emissions of a million automobiles in 2019, according to the latest data published by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Ascend Performance Materials facility, 10 miles north of Pensacola on the west bank of the Escambia River.

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Report finds poultry farming sends more pollution to Chesapeake Bay than previously thought
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Report finds poultry farming sends more pollution to Chesapeake Bay than previously thought

The Environmental Integrity Project’s analysis estimates that about 1 million more pounds of nitrogen pollution are entering the Chesapeake Bay each year from the poultry industry than state and federal cleanup programs estimate.  
Solutions
UK air industry sets zero carbon target despite 70% more flights
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UK air industry sets zero carbon target despite 70% more flights

The UK aviation industry has pledged to cut its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 – despite still planning for 70% more flights over the next three decades.

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The city so full nobody can breathe
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The city so full nobody can breathe

Mongolia is losing its nomadic culture — and its lung health.
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Dirty lies: How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions
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Dirty lies: How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions

The long read: The ‘Dieselgate’ scandal was suppressed for years – while we should have been driving electric cars
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Black lung study finds biggest cluster ever of fatal coal miners' disease
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Black lung study finds biggest cluster ever of fatal coal miners' disease

The cluster, found in central Appalachia and first reported by NPR, indicates that a disease once thought to be on the decline is still a common killer among coal miners.

The cluster, found in central Appalachia and first reported by NPR, indicates that a disease once thought to be on the decline is still a common killer among coal miners.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
Greenland landslide triggered global seismic event for nine days

Greenland landslide triggered global seismic event for nine days

Houston faces growing threats from hurricanes and heat waves, experts warn

Houston faces growing threats from hurricanes and heat waves, experts warn

Harris links climate action to American values as part of presidential push

Harris links climate action to American values as part of presidential push

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Cancer Alley Louisiana

Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley

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homelessness climate change

Op-ed: People need shelter from climate change — their health hangs in the balance

Youth climate case petition heads to Supreme Court

Youth climate case petition heads to Supreme Court