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Angela Tovar says her experiences growing up near “Slag Valley” deeply influence her approach to reform practices that have disproportionately burdened communities like the one she was raised in.

Chicago is at a crucial moment as city officials and community leaders take the first steps to tackle environmental discrimination after a federal investigation revealed how the city’s zoning and planning practices have disproportionately placed polluting businesses in predominantly Black and Hispanic communities in the South and West Side.

Q&A: How Chicago’s Chief Sustainability Officer, a Southeast Side Native, Plans to Tackle Environmental Racism

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Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

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The pivot reveals a company adapting to Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda and looking to cash in on recently boosted tax incentives for enhanced oil recovery.

For four years, battles over private property rights have gridlocked state legislatures across the Midwest and stalled plans for a pipeline to transport liquified carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in the region.

Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

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The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

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“Today, as in the beginning, life is still made out of carbon dioxide, and the world’s problems are made out of carbon dioxide as well.”

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Peter Brannen, the author of “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”

The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

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Citing national security, the Trump administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections for endangered animals—even if it could cause their extinction.

The Trump administration is turning to the nuclear option on endangered-species protections in the name of national security.

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

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