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Heat-related health harms are entirely preventable, yet heat stress is a major occupational hazard in Maryland. Maryland workers urgently need a strong, enforceable occupational heat standard that protects their right to a safe and healthy working environment.

Decades of weak enforcement of laws designed to promote fairness, paired with public investments that skew markets toward large-scale industrial agriculture, have allowed a handful of companies to dominate the food chain—at the expense of health, economic resilience, fair markets…

Canadian owner of embattled Bristol Bay mining scheme promises preliminary economic analysis within 45 days to demonstrate financial feasibility of mine predicted to lose billions.

Becoming climate neutral by 2050 will have enormous implications for Bostonians: better air quality, reduced electricity bills, and a lower energy burden are just a few ways in which the standard will improve lives across the city.

China’s new announcement has the potential to help promote a clean energy revolution around the world by sending an important signal that China will immediately shift its support for overseas coal power plant projects to work with developing countries to…

To bring Americans higher air quality and better health outcomes, we must transition to a fully zero-emission truck and bus fleet as soon as possible.

The U.S. needs to urgently mobilize more international climate finance if we are going to have a chance of a successful climate summit in Glasgow this November, and any chance of keeping 1.5°C alive.

If next year is dry in California, modeling from the Bureau of Reclamation shows that Shasta Reservoir would store nearly 750,000 acre feet less water in April 2022 than it did in April 2014—a year that was an unmitigated disaster…

The Biden administration is taking promising steps toward a safer, healthier future for indoor and outdoor workers.

Advancing nature-based solutions—such as protecting and restoring blue carbon ecosystems in Latin America and beyond—must be an integral part of global climate action.

New regulations from NOAA fall far short of what is needed to save the species.

A broad, bipartisan coalition is running ads thanking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for restarting the process to protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay and stop the Pebble Mine.

The Build Back Better package is an important first step to meet the need for clean and efficient buildings, but it is only a first step in a marathon, and much more is going to be needed to decarbonize buildings…

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has developed a Draft Conservation Plan outlining how the state will reduce entanglements of endangered and threatened whales and sea turtles in the Oregon commercial Dungeness crab fishery. 

On November 2nd, New Yorkers can lead a new wave of state environmental rights amendments if they decide that the state should officially recognize everyone’s right to clean air and water.

The pending Build Back Better legislation marks the beginning of a decades long battle to reach transportation carbon neutrality and more equitable communities across the United States.

For years, the people incarcerated at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman have reported a host of problems relating to drinking water and sewage. Now, an investigation confirms repeated and likely ongoing environmental violations at the notorious Parchman prison.

Celebrating the World Ozone Day, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, released an action plan for implementing climate friendly cooling in the country.