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Fracking seems like a quick fix for our energy needs, but it disproportionately harms marginalized communities.

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On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

For the last year, the two of us have been lucky to talk strategy with more than 130 other rural organizers and volunteer ...

With plenty of talk at the federal level recently about demographics, a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ...

With plenty of talk at the federal level recently about demographics, a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and ...

The company’s proposal to build more than 30 miles of natural gas pipeline has worried environmental advocates, who believe ...

With plenty of talk at the federal level recently about demographics, a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington shows us maybe we should be ...

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Photograph by Stuart Conway WITH PERMISSION OF TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Croatoan was the name of both a barrier island to the south and the indigenous people who lived there, Carolina ...