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Months after Puerto Rico earthquakes, thousands are still living outside

In the past week alone, the Puerto Rico Seismic Network registered 43 “significant” quakes, leaving many people fearful of going home. More than 8,000 houses have been damaged.

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Microgrids are helping Australia get power back after the fires

The Resilient Energy Collective, created by the cofounder of Atlassian, is quickly spinning up clean power solutions in places where the regular grid is taking weeks to get back online.

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Puerto Rico's energy insurrection

The island’s electric grid is too centralized to be resilient. But politicians and investors are obstructing a grassroots movement for community solar.

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Justice

Trump attaches severe restrictions to Puerto Rico's long-delayed disaster aid

Days after the island was hit by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, the White House released billions in aid but placed limits on how it can be spent.

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Justice

Puerto Rico power outage: How have microgrids performed?

After Hurricane Maria, battery companies like Tesla and Sonnen helped set up alternate power systems across the island. Now that the island is without power again, they are showing a way forward.

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The Intercept’s 2019 environment coverage

A look back at The Intercept’s must-read environment stories from 2019.

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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

This week, Peter Dykstra and Host Steve Curwood discuss the international rise of coal, with China's big push to increase coal power and Russia's Siberian coast playing an increasing role in shipping coal. In Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, two years of delays are preventing islanders from accessing the FEMA aid needed to recover after hurricanes Maria and Irma.

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FEMA’s hurricane aid to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands has stalled

Two years after Hurricanes Maria and Irma, records show the agency’s work on long-term recovery on the islands is crawling compared with some states on the mainland.

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Dominica is working to become world’s first hurricane-proof country

When Hurricane Maria destroyed Dominica in 2017, the devastation spurred an ambitious goal to fully adapt to climate change.

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Could a solar-powered uprising reshape Puerto Rico?

After two devastating hurricanes, some island residents are ushering in a new age of renewables.

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In Puerto Rico, FEMA flood zone residents see little relief

Two years after Hurricane Maria, residents of San Isidro are still struggling to rebuild. Now, their only option for relief may be to relocate.

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Children

The disappearing schools of Puerto Rico

Over the past three years, hundreds of schools have closed across Puerto Rico. Their ruins are among the most visible evidence of the island’s vicious circle of poor governance, neglect by Washington and environmental catastrophe.

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Justice

Former FEMA official accused of taking bribes in Hurricane Maria recovery

Federal authorities arrested a former top FEMA official and the ex-president of a company that secured $1.8 billion in contracts to repair Puerto Rico’s power grid.

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, efforts to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electrical system offer lessons for boosting energy security

A resilient electrical production and distribution system is possible — if we learn from past experience.

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Hurricane Maria's legacy: How the rise of nationalism creates climate victims

Speaking in Puerto Rico near the storm's anniversary, David Wallace-Wells warns the the devastation could be routinely replicated - but youth activism offers hope.

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Months after Puerto Rico earthquakes, thousands are still living outside

Microgrids are helping Australia get power back after the fires

Puerto Rico's energy insurrection

Trump attaches severe restrictions to Puerto Rico's long-delayed disaster aid

Puerto Rico power outage: How have microgrids performed?

The Intercept’s 2019 environment coverage

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

FEMA’s hurricane aid to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands has stalled

Dominica is working to become world’s first hurricane-proof country

Could a solar-powered uprising reshape Puerto Rico?

In Puerto Rico, FEMA flood zone residents see little relief

The disappearing schools of Puerto Rico

Former FEMA official accused of taking bribes in Hurricane Maria recovery

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, efforts to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electrical system offer lessons for boosting energy security

Hurricane Maria's legacy: How the rise of nationalism creates climate victims

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The Trump Administration is using COVID-19 to further its dismantling of environmental protection.

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"Big new infrastructure costing billions is not the best way to accelerate decarbonization"

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

Coronavirus is going to batter us far longer than the worst of hurricanes. We must not let environmental justice communities be flattened in the process.

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