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How RFK Kennedy Jr. turned from tragedy and tumult to environmentalism before becoming the face of vaccine skepticism
Born into privilege, RFK Jr. spiraled after his father's murder. He later reinvented himself.
Brent D. Griffiths
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A historic settlement could bring environmental justice to a Chicago neighborhood that's been filled with polluting industries
Residents of Chicago's Southeast Side have lived alongside industrial polluters for generations. Ad…
Catherine Boudreau
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A $1 billion environmental justice wake-up call in Jackson
More than 140,000 residents, the majority of whom are Black, don't have clean drinking water after …
Catherine Boudreau
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The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leased a plot of land to an oil and natural gas company while the judge was weakening the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency, report says
In the lease, Martha Ann Bomgardner Alito would earn 3/16ths of the money generated from inherited …
John L. Dorman
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Across the world, extreme weather events are fueling gender-based violence during and after disasters
The analysis found that gender-based violence — such as sexual assault, intimate partner violence, …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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'We are being poisoned': Black residents living in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' say the state is guilty of 'genocide' and environmental racism
In parts of Cancer Alley, a region rife with petrochemical plants, the risk of cancer is 47 times t…
Trisha Gopal
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Tribal nations are fighting a pipeline expansion putting livelihoods at risk. Why they say their voices were silenced.
Indigenous communities say they didn't get a choice with Line 3 pipeline. They are still demanding …
DeArbea Walker
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Climate change resulting in itchy eyes and runny nose, says research by Rutgers
Two of the most common allergens in the contiguous United States are oak and ragweed pollens. Resea…
ANI
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Delhi court grants bail to environmental activist Disha Ravi in Greta Thunberg toolkit case
A Delhi Court on Tuesday granted bail to climate activist Disha Ravi in the Greta Thunberg 'Toolkit…
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Supreme Court restricts — but does not end — Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions
The Clean Air Act will still allow the EPA to regulate the greenhouse-gas emissions driving our cli…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Justice Kagan gives pointed warning about the 'legitimacy' of the court, seemingly calling out justices with 'political social preferences'
Justice Elena Kagan warned that the court losing connection with the public is 'a dangerous thing f…
Azmi Haroun
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Indian trade unions to join global protests against Amazon India
Supply chain workers of Amazon in India are protesting against the e-commerce giant as part of a g…
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Brett Kavanaugh broke from his fellow conservative Supreme Court justices and warned their ruling on the EPA could jeopardize water quality and flood control
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, joined by the Supreme Court's liberal wing, said the majority was departin…
Kelsey Vlamis
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January 6 hearing takeaways: Pardon pleas, more Bill Barr, and a riveting account of how Trump turned to the Justice Department and a loyal lawyer to 'help legitimize his lies'
The House January 6 committee's fifth public hearing captured the drama inside the Justice Departme…
C. Ryan Barber
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Federal investigators searched the home of Trump-era Justice Department official Jeff Clark
The search of Jeff Clark's came on the eve of a House January 6 committee hearing focused on Trump'…
C. Ryan Barber
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The Supreme Court could shake up the nation with upcoming landmark decisions on abortion, guns and religion
From Roe V. Wade to gun safety, here's a preview of the high-profile cases the Supreme Court will s…
Oma Seddiq
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Trump-era Justice Department leader Jeff Rosen has agreed to testify at House January 6 hearing
Jeff Rosen plans to testify at an upcoming House January 6 committee meeting about Trump's effort t…
C. Ryan Barber
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dominated oral arguments and challenged conservative thinking in her first months on the Supreme Court, observers say
"We haven't really seen somebody who, out of the gates, is this engaged," one Supreme Court scholar…
Oma Seddiq
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Supreme Court limits EPA's ability to fight climate change, a major environmental ruling that could affect Biden's goals
The decision restricts the EPA's ability to set environmental regulations that aim to slow the adva…
Jake Epstein,Oma Seddiq
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Ketanji Brown Jackson took the Supreme Court bench for the first time, quickly settling into her new role with lengthy questioning in high-stakes environmental case
Jackson's addition to the bench did not change the court's 6-3 conservative majority, but maintaine…