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'Down your throat': Biden pushes CCS on polluted places
The administration is counting carbon capture as part of its promised funding for disadvantaged communities. But they don't want it.
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‘Death stars on sinking land’: How liquefied natural gas took over the Gulf Coast
The U.S. is now the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas. Towns in southern Louisiana are paying the price.
New air monitors among major impacts of ProPublica toxic air pollution reporting
Communities identified as “Sacrifice Zones” in a ProPublica analysis of toxic air pollution scored major wins this month. In one, the EPA will start monitoring the air. In another, a judge withdrew permits from a giant petrochemical complex.
EPA needs funding and staffing restored for any environmental justice
Advocates want Congress to make up for the funding and staffing the EPA has lost in its enforcement division.
HUD accuses city of Chicago of environmental racism
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the city were accused of environmental racism last week.
Representatives introduce $500 million air quality bill, citing ProPublica's investigations
Lawmakers introduced a House bill to fund air monitoring after ProPublica highlighted pollution in its “Black Snow” and “Sacrifice Zones” investigations. The bill is nearly identical to one introduced in the Senate last summer.
The EPA administrator visited cancer-causing air pollution hot spots highlighted by ProPublica and promised reforms
ProPublica found more than 1,000 toxic air hot spots across the country, and determined Black residents were disproportionately at risk. Environmental experts called the EPA’s response to our investigation historic and a “radical change in tone.”
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