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My Elders in Pakistan Predicted Calamity. Now It’s Here.
KARACHI, Pakistan — On Aug. 24, I received a frantic call from my mother. She told me that Sabu Buriro, our village on the shore of Lake Hamal in…
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Ibrahim Buriro

September 2022

We In Appalachia Are Done With Being A Sacrifice Zone
Here's what's wrong with Manchin's side deal to the Inflation Reduction Act
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Crystal Mello

August 2022

Trying to keep the roof on while the petrochemical industry keeps blowing it off
As hurricane season begins, Michael Esealuka describes life - and activism - in Black communities of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, on the frontlines of both…
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Michael Esealuka

June 2022

In Poland, “Going Green” Means Burning More Coal
With Parents and Children Struggling to Breathe, Climate Activism is a Matter of Life and Death
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Kamila Kadzidlowska
The War On My Homeland Offers a Real Chance To Save the Planet
Stopping Putin's Fossil-fueled War Could Accelerate a Green Transition
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Svitlana Romanko

March 2022

Native American Sovereignty Supersedes Big Oil's Authority - And It's Time The Industry Accepted It.
This thought occurred to me as I made my way home to Detroit from Lansing last month. I had just made a presentation to the Mackinac Straits Corridor…
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Hadassah Greensky
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Equation Campaign

February 2022

A Landmark Precedent Gets Set In Virginia Thanks to Frontline Environmental Justice Activists
I recognized the older woman immediately as she stood up to address the six members of the Virginia Air Pollution Board gathered in the Pittsylvania…
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Crystal Cavalier

December 2021

Planting Strength, Harvesting Hope
Lessons from Nebraska's 'Cowboy and Indian Alliance' against the Keystone XL Pipeline
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Jane Fleming Kleeb

November 2021

Faith, Fury, and Joy in Glasgow
Rowan Ryrie writes from Parents for Future Global, at COP26
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Rowan Ryrie
We Shall Breathe In Memphis
by Justin J. Pearson of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP)
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Equation Campaign
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