Leer en español. For two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Lucy’s Pizza was the only restaurant open in the central mountain town of Adjuntas. The town’s 18,000 residents,
Extreme heat fueled by climate change kills more people in the US than any other weather-related event each year, and those who are at the greatest risk of dying are Black and
In keeping with mid-20th century segregationist federal guidance, West Oakland, California officials in the 1940s deliberately put the most polluting industries and biggest highways in Black neighborhoods - saddling them with cancer,
Europe's frantic race to build LNG infrastructure will lock in massive climate pollution for decades, leave billions of euros and dollars in stranded assets, or both, a new Greenpeace report warns. The
When an unprecedented heat wave bore down on Portland, Oregon, in June 2021, Jonna Papaefthimiou, the city’s chief resilience officer, immediately thought of the city’s most vulnerable populations: older people sweltering, often
After a series of winter storms pummeled California this winter, thousands of trees across the state lost their grip on the earth and crashed down into power lines, homes, and highways. Sacramento
The U.S. EPA on Friday approved a California plan to phase out the sale of diesel-powered heavy trucks, a move with potentially outsized ramifications. Pollution emitted from large diesel trucks is often
San Giovanni a Teduccio is a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Italy. Once an industrial center, today it’s home to abandoned factories that sit in ruins by the sea. But
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In the mid-2000s, the United States unearthed a huge amount of methane – the main ingredient in natural gas. To ship it overseas, companies built factories to compact it into a liquid.
Ben Jealous has spent much of his career fighting for voting rights and prison reform. Now, as he takes the helm of the Sierra Club, he’s thinking about other ways to fight
Alongside drought, famine, and climatic destabilization, you can add war to the list of potential (un)intended consequencesd of geoengineering, the Washington Post reports. As fossil-fueled climate changes continue to exacerbate drought, extreme
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's failure to account for systemic racism and climate change is compounding the harm caused by those interconnected phenomena, Prism reports. FEMA, tasked with preparing for and responding
Los Angeles County banned new oil drilling and set a 20-year phase out of existing wells in late January. The unanimous Board of Supervisors vote followed similar ordinances passed by Culver City
Before the freeways came in, Bronzeville, on Milwaukee’s North Side, was a vibrant neighborhood known for its restaurants, bars and jazz scene. The area had been home to successive waves of immigrants
The new schoolyard at PS 184M Shuang Wen, a grade school in Manhattan’s Chinatown, features new play equipment, a yoga circle, a stage and basketball and tennis courts. It also has a
Police shot and killed a protester during a sweep to clear a wooded area outside Atlanta to make way for "Cop City", a new $90 million training facility on Wednesday. Protesters have
When Superstorm Sandy hit in October 2012, Celia Sporer-Newman was about eight months pregnant and working full-time as a paramedic in Queens, New York. Sporer-Newman had worked through previous disasters, including Hurricane
The Biden administration launched a multi-agency effort to decarbonize the transportation sector by 2050 on Tuesday. The first-of-its-kind plan, developed by DOE, DOT, HUD, and EPA, seeks to implement funding from the
Before he joined the Civilian Climate Corps, Robert Clark assumed building and electric work was all low-skilled labor, akin to “working at McDonald’s,” he said. That was before he learned to install
A recent report by the Northeast-Midwest Institute shows that Indiana is dead last in comparison to other midwestern states to protect vulnerable communities from air pollution. In particular, Indiana legislators have failed
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