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Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades. The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076 ...
Thousands of people “are falling through the cracks" because they can't make repairs to qualify for the Weatherization Assistance Program.
What started out as a necessity during the pandemic has really evolved into an incredible place that brings people together." ...
UNESCO appoints Indigenous co-chairs to protect languages and knowledge amid climate crisis "A single word like 'X̱maay' contains generations of climate knowledge, laws, and cultural practices." ...
Experts fear that both budget and staff cuts at the EPA will curtail the necessary air monitoring of wildfire smoke, a public health risk.
As the market for floatovoltaics explodes, scientists are studying how to make the systems also work for waterbirds and other ...
The small town Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.
The nation's largest city has an ambitious plan to cut emissions. Mayoral frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani could ...
Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle ...
But banks abandoned net-zero and climate-friendly pledges in droves last year, in addition to backing fossil fuels. “This year, banks have shown their true colors,” said Lucie Pinson, one of the ...
Despite a growing number of state bans, advocates of cultivated seafood say it can protect waterways from overfishing.
In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the ...