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Under pressure from climate activists to close, the plant agreed to a deadline and put millions in a transition fund. That’s giving Centralia a chance.

This story was produced as part of Climate Solutions, a collaboration focused on community engagement and solutions-based reporting to help Central Pennsylvania move toward climate literacy, resilience and adaptation. StateImpact Pennsylvania convened the collaboration; WITF is a Climate Solutions partner. Other Climate Solutions partners are Franklin & Marshall Center for Public Opinion, La Voz Latina, Sankofa African American Theatre Company, Shippensburg University, Q’Hubo News, and the York Daily Record. 

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As Wildfire Grows Near Ex-Nuclear Site, California County Sets Up Radiation Air Monitors

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The fire department said “hazardous materials and radiological monitoring teams” continue to track the health of the air in the Ventura County area.

With a Southern California wildfire only growing in size, firefighters in Ventura County have increased response efforts near a former nuclear reactor and rocket testing site.

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The Brazilian Supreme Court Makes Way for the ‘Grain Train’

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Environmental and Indigenous activists say the railway, if it proceeds, will unleash an explosion of carbon and further imperil the world’s biggest and most climate-critical rainforest.

A nearly 600-mile railway that would cut through the heart of the Amazon rainforest got one step closer to reality Thursday when the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that a national park could be resized to accommodate its passage.

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A Youth-Led Campaign Claims a Win For Climate Justice

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A new U.N. resolution reinforces a landmark court opinion tying fossil fuel use to human rights abuses and legal responsibility for climate change.

A climate justice seed planted by young Pacific Island students in 2019, as mass participation in climate demonstrations peaked in the millions, is starting to reshape international law around the realities of a rapidly warming planet.

A Youth-Led Campaign Claims a Win For Climate Justice

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