This Democrat Wants to Double the Gas Tax

This story was first published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal gas tax that pays for America’s highways hasn’t been raised in decades, but that doesn’t stop some determined lawmakers from...

This Is the Real Cost of Coal

This story was originally published by the Atlantic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, a radio broadcaster marvels at the wonder of coals: Consider a single piece glowing in your...

30 Percent of California's Forest Firefighters Are Prisoners

Here’s a kind of crazy stat: Between 30 and 40 percent of California’s forest firefighters are state prison inmates. The state has become a tinderbox of sorts from a four-year drought, and roughly 4,000 low-level felons are on the front lines of the...

These Kids Are Fed Up and They’re Not Going to Take It Anymore

This story was originally published by the Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Twenty-one young people from around the country filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration on Tuesday accusing the federal government of...

"The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception"

“Concerns about the safety of Teflon, C8, and other long-chain perfluorinated chemicals first came to wide public attention more than a decade ago, but the story of DuPont’s long involvement with C8 has never been fully told.”

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