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Fast Renewables Growth Triggers Scramble for Qualified Workers
As the shift off carbon accelerates, clean energy companies are scrambling to find the people power they need to keep the lights on. -
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Funding Must Address Climate Health Impacts, Inequities, Culbert and Ness Warn
The climate crisis is deepening the socioeconomic factors that lead to widespread ill health—and policy-makers must pay attention, say two Canadian public health experts. -
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True Death Toll from Texas Winter Power Failure Rises to 702
The death toll from February’s power grid failure in Texas could be five times what officials have so far declared—and little is being done ... -
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Action is the Antidote as Climate Anxiety Creates Mental Health Crisis
Climate change is driving a secondary—and badly under-addressed—crisis for hundreds of millions around the world: the brutalization of mental health. -
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Australian Court Affirms “Duty of Care” to Protect Youth from Climate Crisis
In a global first, Australia’s federal court has ruled that the country’s government is legally obliged to protect young people against future harms from ... -
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Urban Food Forest Movement Tackles Food Insecurity One Community at a Time
The urban food forest in Browns Mills, Atlanta, is one of more than 70 such initiatives scattered across the United States: all the work ... -
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U.S. Cities at Risk for ‘Deadliest’ Heat Wave-Power Failure Combo
Millions of urban Americans will be put at serious risk of heat exhaustion this summer if any heat waves coincide with power failures—a deadly ... -
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Virginia’s ‘Solar Barn Raisings’ Help Power Community Spirit
A solar non-profit’s work with Habitat for Humanity to bring “solar barn raising” to Virginia communities is putting paid to the myth that solar ... -
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New Start-Up Aims to Build U.S. Energy Equity One Neighbourhood at a Time
To be poor and a person of colour in the United States all too often means living with energy poverty and its associated health ... -
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Harvard Students Discover State Law that Could Boost Case for Divestment
Harvard students pushing the institution to divest from fossil fuels may have found a winning strategy with the new legal argument that investing in ... -
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U.S. Lawmakers to Vote on Groundbreaking Environmental Justice Bill
A landmark bill currently in front of the U.S. Congress could change the game for environmental justice in the country. Two key provisions: an ... -
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More Systemic Racism than Storm Damage in Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis
The winter storm that famously brought Texas to its knees last month also delivered misery to places like Jackson, Mississippi. Weeks later, more than ... -
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Increases in U.S. Floods, Flood Damage Fuel Insurance Crisis
Sea level rise and severe storms are sending more and more water surging into America’s towns and cities, destroying property and lives. That has ... -
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Caribbean Refinery Poses an Early Test for U.S. Climate Justice Commitments
U.S. President Joe Biden’s promise to advance the cause of environmental justice is being put to the test by a U.S. Virgin Islands oil ... -
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Economic, Racial Bias Skews Cascadia’s Push to Decarbonize
The fight for climate justice continues to struggle for air as Cascadia races ahead to decarbonize. But brighter days may lie ahead.
