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Pennsylvania Shell plant brings pollution and plastic
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Mia DiFelice, Robin Lesko: New Pennsylvania Shell plant brings pollution and plastic. We’re fighting back.

Shell’s plant is spewing air pollution and blowing past permit limits in Western Pennsylvania, so we're pushing to hold it accountable.

Causes
particulate pollution fossil fuel combustion
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Tiny soot particles from fossil fuel combustion kill thousands annually. Activists now want Biden to impose tougher standards

The soot, known as PM 2.5, has been linked to cardiac arrest, asthma attacks and “premature deaths” from a range of cardiovascular and breathing disorders.

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Climate change is pushing hospitals to tipping point
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Climate change is pushing hospitals to tipping point

The scramble to save lives is a challenging reality that many hospitals and medical workers are facing again this year as severe weather-related health emergencies escalate because of extreme climate events.
Politics
Record wildfires on the West Coast are capping a disastrous decade

Record wildfires on the West Coast are capping a disastrous decade

One after another, major fires exploded across Washington, Oregon and California earlier this month. They have added up to the worst fire season on record.
Politics
For prisoners in the West, the virus and the wildfires are colliding
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For prisoners in the West, the virus and the wildfires are colliding

Prisoners are more vulnerable than ever to the twin crises of the pandemic and a historic wildfire season.
Impacts
How PurpleAir became essential to California air quality monitoring

How PurpleAir became essential to California air quality monitoring

PurpleAir’s network of air quality monitors and its real-time map have provided vital information to people looking to avoid bad health outcomes.
Impacts
Why is wildfire smoke so bad for your lungs?

Why is wildfire smoke so bad for your lungs?

As the smoke from the California wildfires starts to blanket the entire country, you should know what you’re inhaling.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
A woman stands in front of a garbage dump next to an abandoned building holding a poster that says "there is no planet b."

Environmental groups brace for a new era of fear and federal targeting

A copy of Pope Francis' Laudato Si encyclical propped against a wooden pew in a church with the pope's photo on the cover.

Pope Francis made climate change a moral crisis. Following his death, the world needs a new voice

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Clean energy tech is outpacing politics and reshaping the global power landscape

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A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

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NRC denies full hearing on Palisades nuclear restart challenge

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Young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States lose Supreme Court bid but say they'll continue their pursuit of climate justice

CLIMATE
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Trump administration’s shutdown of USAID devastates global conservation efforts