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The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.

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Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change

By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER

In this aerial view from a drone, search and rescue vehicles from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office are seen in a mobile home park that was destroyed by wildfire on Sept. 11, 2020 in Ashland, Oregon. Credit: David Ryder/Getty Images

Text: Joe Biden on Climate Change, ‘a Global Crisis That Requires American Leadership’

A group of volunteer designers and staff from community organizations built benches with shades in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York to provide cool places for people to rest during heat waves. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey/InsideClimate News

Video: As Covid-19 Hinders City Efforts to Protect Residents From the Heat, Community Groups Step In

By Anna Belle Peevey, Maddie Kornfeld

Students in New York demonstrate during the Climate Strike, part of a worldwide day of climate strikes on Sept. 20, 2019. Credit: Barbara Alper/Getty Images

Q&A: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible

By Ilana Cohen

A view of the site of the Hennessey Fire exploded Tuesday afternoon and nearly doubled in size in a matter of minutes, on August 19, 2020 in Vacaville, California. Credit: Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Paying for Extreme Weather: Wildfire, Hurricanes, Floods and Droughts Quadrupled in Cost Since 1980

By Bob Berwyn

The smokestack of the Wheelabrator Incinerator is seen near Interstate 95 in Baltimore, Maryland on March 9, 2019. Credit: EVA CLAIRE HAMBACH,EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty Images

How Maryland’s Preference for Burning Trash Galvanized Environmental Activists in Baltimore

By RACHEL FRITTS

New Yorkers enjoy the outdoors near the pier in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on July 20, 2020 in New York, New York. Credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

New York's Heat-Vulnerable Neighborhoods Need to Go Green to Cool Off

By Ilana Cohen

A firefighter stands among the remains of homes burned down in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens during Hurricane Sandy on October 31, 2012

Covid Killed New York’s Coastal Resilience Bill. People of Color Could Bear Much of the Cost

By Kristoffer Tigue

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris greet each other ahead of the second round of the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season. Biden selected Harris as his running mate on Tuesday. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

On Climate, Kamala Harris Has a Record and Profile for Action

By Marianne Lavelle

Sen. Kamala Harris, along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, introduced climate equity legislation on Thursday. Credit: Alexander Drago/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Harris and Ocasio-Cortez Team up on a Climate ‘Equity’ Bill, Leaving Activists Hoping for Unity

By Ilana Cohen

A pumpjack stands in a field next to Arvin High School with the Tehachapi Mountains in the background. Credit: Julia Kane

Tired of Wells That Threaten Residents’ Health, a Small California Town Takes on the Oil Industry

By Julia Kane

Floodwaters inundate the San Jacinto River basin in Houston, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey. Credit: DigitalGlobe via Getty Images

Hundreds of Toxic Superfund Sites Imperiled by Sea-Level Rise, Study Warns

By David Hasemyer

An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, Alaska on May 25, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Advocates’ New Tactic: Calling Opposition to Arctic Drilling ‘Racist’

By Ilana Cohen

The Connecticut State Capitol building is seen in 2018 in Hartford. Credit: EGryk

Connecticut Passed an Environmental Justice Law 12 Years Ago, but Not That Much Has Changed

By Abby Weiss

A construction worker stops to cool off in the water fountains at Canal Park, on July 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

A Pandemic and Surging Summer Heat Leave Thousands Struggling to Pay Utility Bills

By Maddie Kornfeld

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Q&A: An Environmental Justice Champion’s Journey From Rural Alabama to Biden’s Climate Task Force

By Ilana Cohen

A policeman carries blankets for people affected by Superstorm Sandy on November 8, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

With Climate Change Intensifying, Can At-Risk Minority Communities Rely on the Police to Keep Them Safe?

By Ilana Cohen

Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot on Oct. 14, 2014 outside Gascoyne, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Climate Activists See ‘New Era’ After Three Major Oil and Gas Pipeline Defeats

By Marianne Lavelle

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