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Sackett v. EPA threatens to roll back critical protections
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I paddle Boston’s Mystic River as Sackett v. EPA threatens to roll back critical protections

Fifty Years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, the future of America’s waterways hangs in the balance.
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A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people
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A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people

Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
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Enough for everyone
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Enough for everyone

Given the current climate emergency and the broader ecological breakdown that looms, there are few issues more pressing than that expressed by the single word: enough. Yet, it is possible to satisfy humanity’s universal needs fairly—and keep the world livable.
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In California’s drier future, what's the best investment for securing water?
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In California’s drier future, what's the best investment for securing water?

Experts agree that cities need diverse water supplies, but desalination plants remain controversial.
Solutions
A reset for unprecedented times

A reset for unprecedented times

Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.”
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Heather Houser: Should you have kids despite climate change?
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Heather Houser: Should you have kids despite climate change?

This decision comes with the privileges of race, class, and citizenship status—which is why reproductive justice needs to be part of the climate conversation.
Solutions
Generation Z is voting on climate change in 2020
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Generation Z is voting on climate change in 2020

Young voters are intimately aware that they will be forced to bear the full effects of climate change—and they’re voting with that in mind.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
grid-scale battery storage

Big batteries are cutting emissions and reshaping the grid

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Trump faces obstacles in limiting lawsuits targeting fossil fuel industry

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Wind energy jobs grow, but safety concerns rise

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Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

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

CLIMATE
Oil well in silhouette with blue sky behind it.

Oil companies use legal loopholes to avoid well cleanup costs

A black-and-white photo of the Los Angeles skyline shrouded in pollution as viewed from nearby mountains.

L.A. is rethinking its future with housing and transit reforms