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Arlie Hochschild, David Hochschild: More republicans than you think support action on climate change

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10 ways to accelerate progress against climate change

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Climate change refugees share stories of escape in 2018

From California to North Carolina to the U.S.-Mexico border, climate change refugees struggle to survive in an attention economy that has forgotten them.

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New chair of Climate Crisis Committee owns shares in fossil fuel fund

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New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'

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Scott Pruitt: After the high life, a job hunt

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The top 10 ocean conservation victories of 2018 (just kidding -- there were only three)

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Power plant explosion casts new light on New York’s dirty fuel addiction

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Peter Dykstra: SEJ enters middle age with grace

And more importantly, with new blood, as the beat goes on

Peter Dykstra: From impeach to impair

Peter Dykstra: Of ice and men.

Peter Dykstra: The 800-lb (cheap, plastic) gorilla in our oceans

Arlie Hochschild, David Hochschild: More republicans than you think support action on climate change

10 ways to accelerate progress against climate change

New E.P.A. plan could free coal plants to release more mercury into the air

Best columns of 2018

Climate change refugees share stories of escape in 2018

It's 'going to end with me': The fate of Gulf fisheries in a warming world

New chair of Climate Crisis Committee owns shares in fossil fuel fund

New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'

Scott Pruitt: After the high life, a job hunt

The top 10 ocean conservation victories of 2018 (just kidding -- there were only three)

Power plant explosion casts new light on New York’s dirty fuel addiction

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Exposed: How willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies

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Peter Dykstra: Happy birthday, Senator Inhofe!

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What will it take to rid our store shelves of BPA and its equally hazardous cousins?

The ongoing health concerns and mixed messaging over the chemical BPA

American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.

Is a federal study of BPA contaminated by questionable motives, methods?

EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

Jim Inhofe, the Senate's unwavering climate denier, turns 85 on Sunday. I requested a Q&A with him when he turns 100 to see how the "hoax" has turned out.

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