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As President Biden continues to promise that his administration will address the climate crisis and protect the air we breathe from industrial polluters, 24 advocacy organizations are demanding his Environmental Protection Agency live up to that promise by doing more to protect communities from factory farms. The groups filed a legal petition with the EPA today urging it to enforce federal air pollution laws against these major polluters, something the agency has refused to do for nearly two decades.

Documentary short “The Day I Had to Grow Up,” edited by Carbondale’s Krysia Carter-Giez, won prizes at last month’s Barcelona International Film Festival and is now streaming.

We pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill have been saying to people like manchin and kyrsten sinema. what portion do you want to undermine? what aspect of the medicare expansion, which has 90% support among the american people including in west virginia, one of the poorest states in the union would you do away with? as we see the devastating effects of climate form in the form most recently of hurricane ida, what aspect of the climate action, which is required to save the planet and ensure a livable future and also in the process create hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of good paying ...

Related As summer arrives, farmworkers will especially feel the consequences of a warming climate. Amadeo Sumano, a strawberry worker in California, recalled feeling dizzy and experiencing headaches during harvest season, when delivering strawberries onto a motorized, moving table that blows hot exhaust. It’s a double-bind, he explains in Spanish: if he were to position himself farther from the exhaust, it would require lugging the strawberries a greater distance. Fortunately, Sumano knows his rights, for which he has fought as a member of the labor union United Farm Workers (UFW). He was...

A new report that examined soil, water, and produce from urban farms and gardens in Baltimore City found low levels of lead and other metals that pose no reason for concern at the majority of growing sites.