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Advocates wary Biden’s infrastructure plan won’t right past wrongs
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Advocates wary Biden’s infrastructure plan won’t right past wrongs

If Biden's infrastructure plan is approved, experts warned that the people whose lives are most affected by the ongoing effects of the Highway Act will have less power to influence the way these new funds are spent.

Causes
Oil companies welcome Kern permitting changes while opponents turn to courts, state government
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Oil companies welcome Kern permitting changes while opponents turn to courts, state government

After a unanimous vote by the Kern County Board of Supervisors to reinstate streamlined drilling permits, local oil producers said they were looking forward to a more predictable regulatory structure, while an opponent pledged to challenge the measure.

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Texas grid crisis exposes environmental justice rifts
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Texas grid crisis exposes environmental justice rifts

While the height of Texas' blackouts left more than 4 million homes and businesses without power, some experts say low-income areas and communities of color bore the brunt of much of the crisis.
Politics
New York says goodbye to 6 dirty power plants and hello to working with communities
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New York says goodbye to 6 dirty power plants and hello to working with communities

"They always have the advantage of having information that we don't have access to." Now that will change.
Solutions
He helped pass a historic EJ bill. But he’s just getting started
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He helped pass a historic EJ bill. But he’s just getting started

An architect of anti-polluting policies on why New Jersey’s latest law is important — and why it’s still not enough.
Impacts
Millions of homeowners who need flood insurance don't know it — thanks to FEMA
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Millions of homeowners who need flood insurance don't know it — thanks to FEMA

It is FEMA's job to warn homeowners about major flood risks, but its approach is notoriously limited.

Impacts
Climate change is a racial justice problem

Climate change is a racial justice problem

You can’t build a just and equitable society on a planet that’s been destabilized by human activities, scientists and activists say.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Amazon rainforest cleared for highway ahead of climate summit

Road through a forest in Uganda.

Uganda’s oil pipeline fuels global fight over energy and climate

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Military climate resilience funding faces uncertainty

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Trump administration seeks to reframe climate change as beneficial

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US Supreme Court clears way for climate lawsuits against Big Oil

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Farmers face funding cuts as Trump administration reconsiders climate-linked grants

CLIMATE
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Trump’s EPA moves to dismantle climate and pollution rules

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Government climate data quietly removed as Trump administration reshapes policy