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The Biden Administration Protects Millions of Acres of Arctic Alaska

Latest NewsAlaskaJenny Shalant
The new Special Areas Rule in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could boost biodiversity and empower Indigenous Peoples to defend the lands they’ve relied on for generations.
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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall
These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.
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In Planning for Climate Change, Native Americans Draw on the Past

ExplainerUnited States, CanadaTim Vanderpool
Across North America, Indigenous tribes and nations are consulting their traditional ecological knowledge to help prepare for a warming world.

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Experts Advise Administration on Right Whale Entanglement

Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Francine Kershaw
Recent estimates indicate that a staggering 31.4 North Atlantic right whales were killed on average each year between 2015 and 2019—70 percent of these deaths are attributable to entanglement.

Virginia Gov. Youngkin Appoints Fossil Fuel Industry Stooges

Expert BlogVirginiaWalton Shepherd

The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board, designed to be run by governor-appointed citizens rather than elected officials, is specifically charged with overseeing—and reducing the dirty air impact of—the very polluters that Youngkin just tapped.  

How Infrastructure Can Help Bridge the Racial Divide

Expert BlogUnited StatesStephanie Gidigbi Jenkins

Embedded in many roads and highways across the U.S. is a legacy of government policies that have segregated communities, limited economic opportunity, and harmed the environment. You can tell a lot about a neighborhood by simply looking at its sidewalks…

Rebuilding Towards Justice

Expert BlogUnited StatesValerie Baron

This Infrastructure Week cannot just be about pouring cement or digging trenches.

Follow the Money and Change How It Is Spent

Expert BlogUnited StatesJohn Bailey

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a unique, once-a-generation opportunity to use infrastructure investments to meet our climate and equity goals.

States Commit to Clean and Healthy New Buildings

Expert BlogWashington, ColoradoAlejandra Mejia Cunningham
These are two states that have recently felt the devastating consequences of the climate crisis and are now taking action to ensure their homes and buildings stop relying on polluting fossil fuels quickly as possible.

Atlantic Oil Drilling Is a Terrible Idea

ExplainerUnited States
While past leasing proposals have included the Atlantic among other large swaths of the U.S. coastline, today the vast majority of Americans agree that opening up more areas for leasing spells disaster for our climate and our economy.

A Rapid Test Finds New Energy Justice Opportunities at DOE

Expert BlogUnited StatesIrene Nielson

With funds from the new infrastructure law, communities have an opportunity to launch new public and community energy programs, seek investments in transmission and grid infrastructure to help meet local climate and resilience goals, and work toward energy justice.

Let’s Make Lead History

Expert BlogUnited StatesAngela Guyadeen

New federal dollars can kickstart our effort to get the lead out of our drinking water.