Author name: Rebecca Egan McCarthy

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration, citing an ongoing “energy emergency,” has once again saddled a community already overburdened by pollution with a dirty, obsolete power plant it doesn’t want or need. The decision has confounded residents and environmental justice advocates, who called the […]

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s Fourth of July was the first time that the town of Comfort, Texas, used the sirens intended to warn its roughly 2,000 residents of imminent flooding. Founded by German abolitionists in 1854, Comfort sits along the Guadalupe River in […]

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