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Rethinking Nature As Economic Climate Capital — And A Really Valuable Investment

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We hear a lot about sea level rise and the effects it is having on coastal communities. The media sometimes morbidly plays and replays footage of homes collapsing from their high cliff footings into the pounding surf. As someone who is lucky enough to live at the beach, I’ve tried … [continued]

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Water is Life, Six Nations lead international approach to long-standing water insecurity

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By Mia Litzenberg

The Six Nations of the Grand River face ongoing water insecurity from pollution, climate change and corporate extraction. Many years of Indigenous water advocacy have led to the development of a new Haudenosaunee Environmental Research Institute as the next step to overcome these challenges.

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Donald Trump Tears Down Another Key Public Health Safeguard

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Washington, D.C. — Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and other dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium. Rolling back the new and more protective Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will allow coal- and oil-fired power … [continued]

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Sierra Club Report: PFAS Found in Nearly All Alabama’s Waterways

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MONTGOMERY, AL — A new report released today has found PFAS in nearly all of Alabama’s waterways, confirming the statewide threat of these deadly toxins. PFAS are man-made “forever chemicals” that don’t break down in the environment and are highly toxic to people. They are virtually unregulated by the US … [continued]

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