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Big Pharma is flooding Puerto Rico with toxic waste
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Big Pharma is flooding Puerto Rico with toxic waste

Dead livestock, cancer, arsenic in your water—that'll be $100 billion in tax breaks, please.
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EPA watchdog to probe Jackson, Miss., water crisis
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EPA watchdog to probe Jackson, Miss., water crisis

This isn’t the first time a water-related emergency in a majority-Black city has landed on the agency inspector general's radar.
Causes
Project to plug 1,600 oil wells in Allegheny National Forest faces delays, doubt — even an arrest warrant
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Project to plug 1,600 oil wells in Allegheny National Forest faces delays, doubt — even an arrest warrant

Even the people who believed in the scheme from the beginning called it a long shot.
Causes
House Republicans pass bill rolling back environmental protection requirements for conventional oil & gas drilling
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House Republicans pass bill rolling back environmental protection requirements for conventional oil & gas drilling

House Republicans on Wednesday passed Senate Bill 790 that would significantly reduce requirements for protecting the environment from conventional oil and gas drilling.

Solutions
50 years of environmental victories, in photos

50 years of environmental victories, in photos

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we look at conservation milestones since the first official day celebrating our planet in 1970.
Causes
Clean water wanted: Contaminated wells and the legacy of fossil fuel extraction
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Clean water wanted: Contaminated wells and the legacy of fossil fuel extraction

Their well is poisoned and a family patriarch is dead. The Easterling family wants clean water and answers to questions about local coal and gas extraction.
Impacts
Two million Americans don't have running water in their homes, according to DigDeep report
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Two million Americans don't have running water in their homes, according to DigDeep report

Native American households are 19 times as likely as white households to lack indoor plumbing, the report notes.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
Truck with headlights on driving through a forest at sunset.

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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Gloved hands holding a globe of the earth with a small plant growing from the top.

Trump administration seeks to reframe climate change as beneficial

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US Supreme Court clears way for climate lawsuits against Big Oil

The torso and legs of a farmer holding beetroots during daytime.

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

CLIMATE
Lee Zeldin in a dark suit and blue patterned tie with a microphone attached, and a white screen in background.

Trump’s EPA moves to dismantle climate and pollution rules

Keyboard with a small green plant growing out of it.

Government climate data quietly removed as Trump administration reshapes policy