This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a legal loophole todayheadline
Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify ...
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Texas food banks are rationing meals for flood survivors because of Trump’s cuts todayheadline
Early in the morning on July 4th, as torrential rains battered Central Texas, the dangers of flash floods became imminent. ...
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Chicago was supposed to warn residents about toxic lead pipes last year. Most still have no idea. todayheadline
This story is a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News, and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. This coverage is made ...
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Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gas todayheadline
In Louisiana, natural gas — a planet-heating fossil fuel — is now, by law, considered “green energy” that can compete ...
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Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades. todayheadline
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What one town learned by charging residents for every bag of trash todayheadline
Until a few years ago, the town of Plympton, Massachusetts was quite literally throwing away money. People were producing so ...
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Chemical Safety Board to disappear under Trump’s orders todayheadline
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to ...
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In California, a biomass company’s expansion raises fears of more fires todayheadline
Wood pellets, by design, are highly flammable. The small pieces of compressed woody leftovers, like sawdust, are used in everything ...
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How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them todayheadline
Twenty-two-year-old software developer Artem Motorniuk has spent his entire life in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, living in the north ...
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Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data todayheadline
For several years, Amy Stelly has been partnering with the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans ...
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