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In San Francisco, some air polluting facilities are allowed to operate for years on draft permits in violation of the Clean Air Act. Credit: Frank DiMarco/Via Getty Images

In San Francisco’s Most Polluted Neighborhood, the Polluters Operate Without Proper Permits, Reports Say

By Elena Shao

Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline on the construction site on the White Earth Nation Reservation near Wauburn, Minnesota in June 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

To Stop Line 3 Across Minnesota, an Indigenous Tribe Is Asserting the Legal Rights of Wild Rice

By Katie Surma

During an environmental justice march in Detroit. Credit: Marcus Johnstone

Timeline: Early Landmark Events in the Environmental Justice Movement

By Agya K. Aning

A coalition of NYC Black Lives Matter activists and environmental justice groups march on the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X in 2016 to demand justice for the people of Flint, Michigan. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

The Biden Administration’s Embrace of Environmental Justice Has Made Wary Activists Willing to Believe

By Agya K. Aning

Houston's skyline, as seen from a railroad yard on the city's perimeter. Credit: Loren Elliott/ AFP via Getty Images.

Houston’s Mayor Asks EPA to Probe Contaminants at Rail Site Associated With Nearby Cancer Clusters

By Aman Azhar

The twin towers of the coker at the sprawling Limetree Bay refinery in St. Croix. Since February when the refinery restarted after an eight-year hiatus, problems with the coker and other processing units have created massive amounts of pressure inside the refinery, causing flares of oil and toxic emissions that have sickened downwind neighbors within seven miles. Credit: Patricia Borns

As Harsh Financial Realities Emerge, St. Croix’s Limetree Bay Refinery Could Be Facing Bankruptcy

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Rev. Raphael Warnock at the funeral in July of Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

In Georgia Senate Race, Warnock Brings a History of Black Faith Leaders’ Environmental Activism

By James Bruggers

Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington will soon be the first African American Catholic cardinal. Credit: Oliver Contreras/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The First African American Cardinal Is a Climate Change Leader

By James Bruggers

Youth activists with the Sunrise Movement demonstrate in a Count Every Vote rally in Philadelphia. Credit: Rachael Warriner

Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign

By Ilana Cohen

Protesters march in Boston after President Trump claimed to have won reelection as officials continued counting ballots with neither the president nor Joe Biden having amassed the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Credit: Phil McKenna/InsideClimate

Post Election, Climate and Racial Justice Protesters Gather in Boston Over Ballot Counting

By Phil McKenna

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots with social distance on the final day of early voting for the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 2, 2020 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

From East to West On Election Eve, Climate Change—and its Encroaching Peril—Are On Americans’ Minds

By Marianne Lavelle

U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

In Final Debate, Trump and Biden Display Vastly Divergent Views—and Levels of Knowledge—On Climate

By Georgina Gustin

Presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a Voter Mobilization event at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina on Oct. 18, 2020. Credit: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Could Biden Name an Indigenous Secretary of the Interior? Environmental Groups are Hoping He Will.

By Ilana Cohen

Ramón Cruz is the first Latino to serve as president of the Sierra Club in the 128-year history of the nation's largest environmental organization. Credit: International Transport Forum

Q&A: The Sierra Club Embraces Environmental Justice, Forcing a Difficult Internal Reckoning

By Evelyn Nieves

Michael Cox, a former EPA climate expert for the Pacific Northwest, looks into the Wyckoff/Eagle Harbor Superfund site on Bainbridge Island, Washington on Oct. 6, 2020. Credit: Karen Ducey

Trump's EPA Claimed 'Success' in Superfund Cleanups—But Climate Change Dangers Went Unaddressed

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

Ana Baptista, a community advocate, in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood. Credit: Brian Fraser/NBC News

At One of America’s Most Toxic Superfund Sites, Climate Change Imperils More Than Cleanup

By ERIK ORTIZ, NBC NEWS

Heavy industry lines the shores of Lavaca Bay, South Texas. Credit: Spike Johnson

A Sprawling Superfund Site Has Contaminated Lavaca Bay. Now, It’s Threatened by Climate Change

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

Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies

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

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

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