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• Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price. — Rural communities in Oregon paid millions of dollars for clean, safe drinking water because the state didn’t protect their watersheds from logging-related contamination.

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  Published 3rd Jan 2021
• The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World

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  Published 17th Dec 2020
• Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

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  Published 16th Sep 2020
• They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• Inside the Pro-Trump Facebook Group Where First Responders Call Coronavirus a Hoax In a private Facebook group, firefighters and paramedics shared memes and conspiracy theories doubting the pandemic, raising concerns that they aren’t taking precautions to protect themselves and others.

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  Published 18th Mar 2020
• How Oil Companies Avoided Environmental Accountability After 10.8 Million Gallons Spilled

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  Published 27th Dec 2019
• Chemical Companies Are Building Their Plants Overseas & Shipping Them Back In. They Still Get State Tax Breaks. - Louisiana attracts chemical cos. with one US’s most generous tax exemptions. The idea is to bring jobs. Instead, construction often happens offsite & automation cuts jobs that remain.

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  Published 9th Dec 2019
• Even Louisiana’s Wealthier Neighborhoods Can’t Escape Toxic Air in “Cancer Alley” - Industrial development usually targets poor communities, but Ascension Parish is one of the richest, & most toxic, places in the state

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  Published 3rd Nov 2019
• Inside the Trump Admin’s Chaotic Dismantling of the Federal Land Agency - Internal records from Bureau of Land Management contradict what plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West, weakening the agency, which stands between federal lands & oil, gas & mineral companies.

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  Published 22nd Sep 2019
• Natural Gas Industry Again Beats a Tiny West Virginia County That Wanted to Control Its Destiny

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  Published 30th Aug 2018
• The Coal Industry Extracted a Steep Price From West Virginia. Now Natural Gas Is Leading the State Down the Same Path. “It’s déjà vu for the people who sat here 130 years ago and gave away our coal wealth to big out-of-state companies. That’s what we’re about to do again.”

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  Published 27th Apr 2018