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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.
Politics
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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Politics
gender equality climate
Photo by Junior REIS on Unsplash

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.

Solutions
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.

Politics
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.

Politics
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.

Good News
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
Graphic image of white freight truck being charged.

California struggles to electrify trucks as Trump administration blocks state rules

Rare earth mining toxic pollution

The hidden cost of powering your phone might be someone else’s cancer

Small creek with water running over rocks.

Toxic mine runoff cleanup revives West Virginia waterways and extracts rare earth elements

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Jellyfish floating in the ocean

Scientists call on UN to adopt bold ocean policies to combat climate and biodiversity threats

Green coral on a reef.

EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

Wildfire smoke in the distance with a forested hill in the foreground.

Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to choke U.S. cities as climate patterns worsen

CLIMATE
Solar panels installed on a rolling hill.

China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records

a cruise ship with an iceberg in the background.

Melting ice and microplastics signal deepening disruption in Antarctica’s climate system