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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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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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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

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

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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.

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

Sacoby Wilson: White House climate and economic justice screening tool misses a key factor: Race

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

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

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

Dean Baker: Building an economy that works again

Abandoned coal plants are a huge opportunity

Fossil fuel cuts, not just renewables, needed to avoid climate disaster

Funding bill includes $100B for disasters but leaves out conservation funds

Climate change leaves homeowners without insurance

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Petrochemical plants send millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year: Report

Montana Supreme Court declares youth-led climate victory