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"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

"Activists sued the federal government Thursday to release images of dead orca whales, sea lions and other marine mammals entangled by commercial fishing boats off the U.S. West Coast."

"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."

"The Golden Rule doesn’t apply in the Golden State when it comes to protecting Latino and Indigenous farmworker communities from toxic pesticides."

"President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead EPA lives in an area at high risk for flooding that gets federal support for climate mitigation."

"Without insurance, it’s impossible to get a mortgage; without a mortgage, most Americans can’t buy a home."

"Additions of clean electricity generation and power lines are falling farther behind the pace of retiring coal and gas plants and surging data center and industrial demand, said the grid’s reliability monitor in an unusually grim outlook for the nation."

"With 2024 set to become the hottest year on record, growing climate extremes mean some places around the world will become uninhabitable and that could lead to mass migration."