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Five Ways Climate Change Made Our Lives More Expensive in 2022
From rising grocery and utility bills to skyrocketing insurance premiums, warming temperatures from climate change hit our wallets hard in 2022.
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New Pollution Rule for Heavy-Duty Trucks Is First in U.S. in 20 Years
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized stricter emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles — including semi trucks, delivery trucks and buses — as part of its larger Clean Trucks Plan.
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To Ensure Access to Electric Cars, Some Activists Are Calling Attention To 'Charging Deserts'
As legislation strives to make electric-powered vehicles like Teslas more accessible, the need for more electric car charging stations is becoming evident. Here's how the lack of chargers disproportionately affects low-income and BIPOC communities.
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Why Utilities Are More Likely to Disconnect Black, Latino and Indigenous Households
Extreme weather leaves millions of Americans with power bills they can't afford — and those who are behind on their electricity bills could have their utility services cut, even as heatwaves become the norm.
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Residents of California’s Warehouse Hub Push Pause on New Development
Communities in the Inland Empire — like Norco, Colton and others in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties — are moving to ban the further development of warehouses in and near residential neighborhoods, which disproportionately affects low-income Hispanic or Black populations.
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