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Colorado oil train safety
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In Denver, oil trains hit a fork in the road to Colorado's transportation future

COAL CREEK, Colo. — As trains heading east from the Moffat Tunnel take one last sharp turn along a ridge near Eldorado Canyon State Park in Boulder County, the scenery changes abruptly. After traveling hundreds of miles east through narrow river gorges and rugged alpine forests, the Union Pacific’s Central Corridor through Colorado emerges at […]
Causes
B.C.’s most ‘polluting and risky’ mines
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B.C.’s most ‘polluting and risky’ mines revealed

Mining is big business in B.C. and it’s an industry that produces a lot of waste. A new report highlights 11 mines of concern and what’s stopping the province from getting them to clean up their acts.

Causes
Industry overrides the environment in Ford’s Ontario

Industry overrides the environment in Ford’s Ontario: auditor general

The auditor general took 489 pages to lay out how Ontario's environment ministry is neglecting its own laws, ignoring polluters and keeping secrets. We read them all.

Politics
Enbridge Line 3 pipeline

What it feels like to have the Line 3 pipeline cut through your town

How people respond to fossil fuels sometimes has less to do with politics than a sense of inevitability.
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WATCH: It's not about fame or recognition for this photographer

During the 2015 Gold King Mine spill, Mylo Fowler raised money selling photo prints to deliver drinking water to the Navajo people.

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Seed companies seek to stop sale of cattle lot connected to Mead ethanol plant
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Seed companies seek to stop sale of cattle lot connected to Mead ethanol plant

“Treatment and disposal (including future liability) of this material should be the responsibility of Mead Cattle,” attorneys for Corteva Agriscience and Syngenta Seeds.
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Brazil shipping boom greenhouse driver
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Brazil looks set for a shipping boom—leaving some concerned about a lack of oversight

For coastal environments, the country’s pending push to increase how much freight is carried by sea may be one step forward, two steps back.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Funding bill includes $100B for disasters but leaves out conservation funds

Climate change leaves homeowners without insurance

Climate change leaves homeowners without insurance

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People advocating against the US hydrogen hub build out

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump

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

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

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

CLIMATE
petrochemical houston gulf coast

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

Montana youth climate lawsuit

Montana Supreme Court declares youth-led climate victory