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Gov. Moore Commits Funding for 67 Hires in Maryland’s Embattled Environment Department, Hoping to Fix Wastewater Treatment Woes

The move comes after an E. coli outbreak last year in Baltimore’s drinking water and “catastrophic failures” at its two wastewater treatment facilities.

By Aman Azhar

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore gives his first State of the State address at the Maryland State House on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 in Annapolis, Maryland. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images
A crane operator sifts through mounds of garbage at the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The trash is burned and used to generate electricity. Credit: Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Minnesota Is Poised to Pass an Ambitious 100 Percent Clean Energy Bill. Now About Those Incinerators…

By Aydali Campa

An oil rig that has repeatedly emitted toxic gases operates next to a single-family home, an apartment complex and, just beyond the trees, a playground, in Kern County, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

A farmer in Kansas during the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s attempts to work formerly fertile land buried in dust. Credit: © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

The Poet Franny Choi Contemplates the End of the World (and What Comes Next)

By Kiley Bense

EPA Administrator Michael Regan arrives to an event on new national clean air standards for heavy-duty trucks near the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters on Dec. 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Six Environmental Justice Policy Fights to Watch in 2023

By Kristoffer Tigue, Aydali Campa, Darreonna Davis

Satere-Mawe indigenous leader Valdiney Satere collects caferana, a native plant of the Amazon rainforest, used as medicinal herb, in the Taruma neighbourhood, a rural area west of Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, in May 2020. Credit: Ricardo Oliveira/AFP via Getty Images.

In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma

Air pollution in the U.S. Credit: plus49/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

After a Decade, Federal Officials Tighten Guidelines on Air Pollution

By Victoria St. Martin

Michael Bell explains his method of using taller plants to shade crops that require less light. Credit: Autumn Jones

The ‘Plant Daddy of Dallas’ Is Paving the Way for Clean, Profitable Urban Agriculture

By Autumn Jones

Workers with the Baltimore City Department of Public Works distribute jugs of water to city residents at the Landsdowne Branch of the Baltimore County Library on Sept. 6, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. The City of Baltimore issued a boil water advisory to over 1,500 residential and commercial facilities in West Baltimore after E. coli bacteria was found in drinking water. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

West Baltimore Residents, Students Have Mixed Feelings About Water Quality After E. Coli Contamination

By Darreonna Davis

Xinrong Ren, a climate scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), notes down readings from air pollution monitoring instrument fitted on the mobile lab after surveying methane hotspots in and around Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar

NOAA Climate Scientists Cruise Washington and Baltimore for Hotspots—of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants

By Aman Azhar

Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Families come to the Ammusait General Hospital malnutrition ward to tend to their sick children and family members. Staff is limited so family members become caretakers at the hospital. Credit: Larry C. Price

A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year

By Georgina Gustin

A photo illustration of tap water in a clear glass drinking glass. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Study: Higher Concentrations Of Arsenic, Uranium In Drinking Water In Black, Latino, Indigenous Communities

By Victoria St. Martin, Aydali Campa

As Flooding Increases, Chicago Looks To Make Basement Housing Safer

By Siri Chilukuri, Borderless Magazine

Steven Donziger is seen at a "Free Donziger" rally held in front of the Manhattan Court House as he faces sentencing in contempt case in New York City on Oct. 1, 2021. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Their Lives Were Ruined by Oil Pollution, and a Court Awarded Them $9.5 Billion. But Ecuadorians Have Yet to See a Penny From Chevron

By Katie Surma

Kimmie Gordon and Dorreen Carey stand in front of a former cement plant site in Gary, Indiana, where a California company, Fulcrum BioEnergy, wants to turn trash and plastic into jet fuel. They are founding members of Gary Advocates for Responsible Development, which opposes the jet fuel plant. Credit: James Bruggers

A Gary, Indiana Plant Would Make Jet Fuel From Trash and Plastic. Residents Are Pushing Back

By James Bruggers

Ali Liban Guracho walks past dozens of dead cattle outside Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

By Georgina Gustin

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, marching in Stockholm in June 2022, was inspired in part by gun control protests led by students who survived the Parkland shooting in Florida in 2018. Credit: Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images.

Finding the Antidote to Climate Anxiety in Stories About Taking Action

By Kiley Bense

Smoke billows to the sky above where fires are spreading near houses Oct. 22, 2007 in Stevenson Ranch, California. Credit: J. Emilio Flores/Getty Images

Despite a Changing Climate, Americans Are ‘Flocking to Fire’

By Grace van Deelen

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