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Texas mineral rights racism dispute
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A fight over mineral rights in Karnes County draws on Texas’ Jim Crow past

Descendants of a prominent white family and a formerly enslaved couple are fighting over ownership — and the oil and gas royalties that would come with it — of an 147.5-acre tract that has bound and divided generations of their families.
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climate justice opinion
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Sacoby Wilson: White House climate and economic justice screening tool misses a key factor: Race

With the U.S. at increasing risk of climate-fueled disasters, we need to plan for future threats and incorporate a focus on equity, justice and resilience into our policies along with honesty about who bears the most disproportionate burden.

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gender equality climate
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Can this year’s U.N. meeting on gender equality make a difference on climate change?

Feminists and environmental activists the world over have continually expressed disappointment in the failure of the U.N. system to stop climate change—or acknowledge it as a human rights or gender equality issue.

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green recovery energy infrastructure covid
msmagazine.com

Care infrastructure is key to an equitable, green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis

As federal policymakers confront the parallel crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and racial injustice, a significant investment in our nation's care infrastructure - and the workforce and green jobs that power it—presents an urgent opportunity to address all three.

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Carys Roberts: Making GDP the focus of a post-coronavirus economy would be a mistake
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Carys Roberts: Making GDP the focus of a post-coronavirus economy would be a mistake

A new, green economy could create 1m jobs, says Carys Roberts, executive director of the IPPR.

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Building a working economy
newrepublic.com

Dean Baker: Building an economy that works again

A practical blueprint for reform in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown.

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Abandoned coal plants are a huge opportunity

Abandoned coal plants are a huge opportunity

They're big, solidly built and often on prime urban land. Now, they're being reborn as everything from charter schools to solar farms.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
project 2025 climate rollbacks

A blueprint for reshaping climate regulations under a second Trump administration

Record oil profits stall renewables

Record oil profits highlight the long road to renewable energy

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Hollywood’s quest to cut carbon emissions

Hollywood’s quest to cut carbon emissions

Some US cities are promoting themselves as climate refuges despite concerns

Some US cities are promoting themselves as climate refuges despite concerns

Supreme Court to rule on key environmental cases

Supreme Court to rule on key environmental cases

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Amid LNG’s Gulf Coast expansion, community hopes to stand in its way

Amid LNG’s Gulf Coast expansion, community hopes to stand in its way