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Colorado Lawmakers Eye Climate-Friendly Pension Reform

If OK'd, measure would be the first nationwide to require climate impact analysis in investment decisions.

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California Oil Industry Uses High Gasoline Prices to Roll Back Climate Agenda, Critics Allege

After industry lobbyists halted the oil and gas well safe-distance law, their well-funded referendum could sway voters with misinformation.

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Critics say state tax break helps petrochemical companies and hurts public schools

In December, legislators killed a controversial tax abatement program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.

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Texas tax break starves public schools

In December, legislators killed a controversial abatement program, Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades

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Calif. plans climate cuts despite floods

Lawmakers will have to resist inertia and oil and gas influence as the climate crisis worsens

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‘A Colossal Giveaway’: A Tax Break for Big Polluters Is Also Starving Public Schools in Texas

In December, legislators killed a controversial abatement program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.

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Even After Floods Hit State, California Plans Cuts To Climate Investments

Lawmakers will have to resist inertia and oil and gas influence as the climate crisis worsens.

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Bay Area Plans to Refine Biofuels Could Derail Climate Goals, Warn Environmentalists

Oil companies may end up relying on environmentally questionable crop-based fuels.

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With L.A.’s COVID-Era Tenant Protections Ending, City Leaders Consider Permanent Safeguards

Advocates warn that without immediate action rising evictions will complicate efforts to combat homelessness.

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Climate, housing crises hit women harder

An advocate explains how gender equity goes beyond Roe v. Wade

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Why California’s Climate Change and Housing Crises Hit Women Hardest

An advocate explains how gender equity goes beyond Roe v. Wade.

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A History of Medical Maltreatment Continues to Kill Black Americans

Dying at higher rates during COVID, while fearing doctors won’t listen.

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‘Biden Had to Put the Country First’

Head of the nation’s largest rail union says the system, not the president, is stacked against workers.

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Paid Family Leave Helps Women Keep Jobs

California must continue improvements to its leave policy, which is critical for the women, people of color and immigrants who comprise the majority of low-income workers.

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Will Karen Bass’ Laser Focus on Tackling Homelessness Have a Cost?

Manuel Pastor, professor and equity advocate, says while staking her political capital on showing tangible progress, Bass must also address other daunting challenges.

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It’s Three Years Since COVID Arrived, and Some Things Haven’t Changed

California’s hospitals struggle once more to find beds for desperate patients.

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How a Colorado Law Could Force Boulder to Sell Oil and Gas to Private Company

State regulators could order Boulder County to sell its gas rights without consent.

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Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

Order was quietly signed on the same day that residents celebrated the energy company’s plea deal on charges of environmental crimes.

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Vaccine Tests, Even the Most Well-Funded, Rarely Look Like the America They Aim to Help

The case for a federal diversity mandate in clinical trials.

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Inside the 14-Year Battle to Secure a Water Line for Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

Long-suffering residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, feel cautiously hopeful after Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro announces plea deal with natural gas company.

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A new union rises in the South

Union of Southern Service Workers is organizing food service, retail and health care workers through direct action

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A New Union Rises in the South

The Union of Southern Service Workers is organizing food service, retail and health care workers through direct action against low wages and historical racism.

Salon

Why Walmart workers are still broke

Author Rick Wartzman examines how improvements in pay by the retail giant fall far short of what workers are owed

Salon

Uncomfortable truth about US health care

Racism, not just poverty and access to care, makes Americans sicker

Salon

Abigail Disney's dream: Living wages

Disney co-founder's granddaughter imagines more equitable America, starting with better pay for Disney park workers

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