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August 5, 2025

Trump’s Latest Move to Deny Climate Science and What it Means for Vehicle Standards

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Don Anair
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August 5, 2025

As States Continue to Fail Workers, We Need Federal Heat Protections

Alicia Race
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August 4, 2025

Despite Clear Preferences from Texas Hill Flood Survivors, Uncertainty Looms

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April 29, 2020

The Crisis Within the Crisis: COVID-19 Is Ravaging African Americans

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April 29, 2020

What I Wish I Had Said on CNN About Trump’s “Lysol and Sunshine” Speech

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April 29, 2020

EPA Advisory Board’s Restricted Science Advice Is Too Little, Too Late, and Comes During a National Crisis

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April 29, 2020

The Biggest Step To-Date on Electric Trucks

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April 29, 2020

Even With Negative Oil Prices and COVID-19 Global Standstill, ExxonMobil, Chevron Must Still Commit to Net Zero Emissions

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April 28, 2020

How to Keep US South Safe from COVID-19 and Scorching Heat, Even as Some States Ignore Pandemic Dangers

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How to Help Coal Communities Recover from the Pandemic

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April 28, 2020

Numbers that Take Your Breath Away: COVID-19, Air Pollution, and Equity

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April 28, 2020

Worker Memorial Day in the Time of COVID-19

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April 27, 2020

Oil Industry Ghostwrites Trump’s Deadly Anti-Environmental Policies

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April 27, 2020

What Does “Fairness to Coal Workers” Mean in the Response to COVID-19?

Jeremy Richardson
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April 27, 2020

Two Clean Energy Programs from the Past that can Help Build to the Future

Sam Gomberg
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April 25, 2020

The EPA’s Dirty Water: New Rule Discards Science, Ignores Importance of Wetlands and Tributaries

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April 25, 2020

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Public Health Protections

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April 23, 2020

Trump Administration’s Hydroxychloroquine Misinformation is Endangering People’s Lives

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April 23, 2020

5 Critical Facts about the Health of US Elections You Should Know

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April 23, 2020

500,000 US Clean Energy Jobs at Risk from COVID Effects

John Rogers
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April 22, 2020

As COVID-19 Reveals Our Food System’s Flaws, Congress Can Boost Protection Now—and Resilience for the Future

Karen Perry Stillerman
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April 22, 2020

An Earth Day Conversation About Environmental Justice With Pioneer Vernice Miller-Travis

Adrienne Hollis
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April 22, 2020

Past Disasters Showed Us Massive Impact COVID-19 Would Have on Black Communities. We Didn’t Listen.

Adrienne Hollis
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April 22, 2020

Fed, States Should Protect Clean Energy Jobs for Black and Latino Workers

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April 22, 2020

US Should Extend the New START Nuclear Weapons Treaty To Make Us All Safer

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April 22, 2020

New COVID-19 Testing Data Reveal 70% More Positive Results in Non-White US Counties

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April 21, 2020

Congress: Clean Energy Manufacturing and Building Is Our Future. Fund It.

Mike Jacobs
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