This EPA research office safeguarded Americans’ health. Trump just eliminated it. todayheadline
For more than half a century, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development, or ORD, has furnished the ...
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The surprising reasons floods and other disasters are more deadly at night todayheadline
It was 4 a.m. on July 4 at Camp La Junta in Kerr County when Kolton Taylor woke up to ...
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A Texas town takes halting, painful steps toward flood recovery todayheadline
By Wednesday, almost two weeks after the July 4 floods that devastated the Central Texas region that hugs the Guadalupe ...
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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 ...
Read moreDetailsTexas 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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Why the federal government is making climate data disappear todayheadline
For 25 years, a group of the country’s top experts has been fastidiously tracking the ways that climate change threatens ...
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The oceans may contain much, much more plastic than previously thought todayheadline
In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study ...
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Drought is draining water supplies and driving up food costs where you’d least expect todayheadline
Taking shovels and buckets to a dried-up sandy belt of the Vhombozi River in Zimbabwe last August, groups of Mudzi ...
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This Texas county asked for disaster resilience help. The flood came first. todayheadline
Flooding is a fact of life in Texas Hill Country, a region home to a flood-prone corridor known as “Flash ...
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