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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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Fossil Fuel Air Pollution Kills One in Five People

Latest NewsInternationalClara Chaisson
The global toll of premature deaths attributed to the burning of coal, gasoline, and diesel is breathtakingly high, with new research doubling previous estimates.

Trump Hatches a New Plan to Attack Science

Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
In the administration’s ongoing war on environmental laws, the tactics can be subtle but the strategy is straightforward: Give corporate polluters every chance to fight the rules they don’t like.

A Tale of Two EPAs

Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
To what lengths will Scott Pruitt go to undo the good work being done by his agency’s scientists, researchers, and staff?

Why Nobody Likes Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
For starters: It would endanger the environment, imperil water systems and other public assets . . . and then make states pay extra for it all.

Coal Is Literally Killing Us

Latest NewsUnited StatesJeff Turrentine
A Harvard study says clean energy could save billions of dollars—and thousands of lives—every year.

Skinflints

Latest NewsFlintJeff Turrentine
The crisis in Flint reveals the dangerous downside of treating public safety as just another line item.

Watered Down

Latest NewsFlintBrian Palmer
Flint made many mistakes, but its haphazard lead monitoring system was the worst of them.

Unleaded, Please

Latest NewsFlintSusan Cosier
Toxic tap water is just not acceptable in 2015 (in Flint, Michigan, or anywhere else).