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Pennsylvania Legislators Claw Back the State’s Power to Plug Abandoned Wells

After a deal last year kneecapped regulators’ ability to address the crisis of abandoned oil and gas wells, Dems aim to reset environmental law.

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Just Because You Think You Are Tipping a Service Worker Doesn’t Mean You Are

Two California cases probe who is pocketing those extra fees tacked onto your restaurant tab.

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New Mexico, ‘Climate Champ’ Governor Sued for Oil and Gas Failures

Lawsuit argues the state is not equally upholding environmental protections enshrined in its constitution.

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Excavating the Future: Guarding the Hidden Archive

Natalia Molina, historian, author and MacArthur fellow, discusses gentrification and her family's history of nurturing community.

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Excavating the Future: Breaking the Silence

Rossana Pérez, healer and activist in the Salvadoran community of Los Angeles, talks about the transgenerational trauma that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed.

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Colorado’s Big Push on Electric Vehicles Gets Boost From Federal Funds, But It’s Got a Long Way to Go

Though the state is set to spend plenty in effort to meet the goals of its emissions reduction plan, more permanent solutions seem far off.

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The Orchard Amid Concrete

Ten years on, a law meant to help urban farmers feed hungry Californians continues to underperform.

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The Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis

How to follow the heat to the next disease; and how following the science got a researcher in trouble.

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Oil Company Cancels Colorado Open Space Drilling Proposal

The plan by Extraction would have led to horizontal drilling under hundreds of acres of scenic Boulder County lands purchased with taxpayer dollars.

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California Bill Would Hit Oil Companies With $1 Million Penalty for Health Impacts

The first of its kind legislation holds companies liable for illness from urban drilling.

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When California Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Overworked Nurses, Better Patient Outcomes Followed

Safe staffing laws have worked in California — and can’t pass anywhere else.

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Hollywood Writers Have a Word for It: Inequality

From Cocaine Bear to Panda Express, the fight for a living wage is the same.

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‘No Renewables’: Texas House Republicans Block Clean Energy in Political Ploy

Petroleum industry supports tax breaks for renewable energy projects but legislators refuse.

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Pennsylvania’s Largest Coal Plant Is Retiring. What Would It Take to Transition the Site to Renewables?

Homer City Generating Station has been used to delay environmental regulations. Could the infamous site become a symbol for the just transition?

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Why Business Lobbyists Want to Stop Labor Secretary Nominee Julie Su

David Weil, whose 2022 Senate confirmation to a Labor Department post was blocked, says fast food companies, ride-sharing services and nonunion builders fear vigorous enforcement of labor laws.

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Incarcerated Men and Women Are Learning to Address Their Own Trauma

Can we learn to look at violence as an aspect of pain?

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David Bronner’s Psychedelic Justice Trip

His soap company donates millions to psychedelics research and reforms, which the CEO says can lead to a healthier, more just society.

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Double Threat: The Greenhouse Gases That Are Also Poisoning You Now

Diesel exhaust and emissions from plastic production warm the planet over time, while immediately threatening those who inhale their toxic fumes.

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Inequality You Can Taste: Low Wages and Unstable Employment Make Fast Food Workers Susceptible to Homelessness

Fast food industry contributes to homelessness in California, says new report.

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Following Internal Review of Texas Environmental Regulators, Critics Demand Reform

Watchdogs call for creation of an environmental justice office, better monitoring of Clean Air Act violations.

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Internal Review of Texas Environmental Regulators Finds ‘Distrust and Confusion’

Critics call for removal of state agency’s economic mandate.

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A Wildly Ambitious New Bill Would Raise the Minimum Wage for Hundreds of Thousands in California

How to help health care workers live where they are employed.

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Building Back Bigger

The Biden administration has embarked on the most expansive government investment since the Great Society, with ambitious goals for economic and social equity.

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California’s Methane Climate Solution Rewards Dairy Gas. Other States Take a Harder Line.

Incentives for cow manure methane prop up gas infrastructure — can California do better?

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‘We Can’t Be Living in an Economy of 40 Million People This Close to the Edge.’

Lake Mead, a key water source for California and six other states, is close to drying up. Water policy expert Felicia Marcus says dramatic action is needed on conservation, recycling and efficiency.

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