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Environmental rulings reveal Supreme Court's dangerous ambitions

 


Sun, Jul 16 at 9:31 AM
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United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back row L-R) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pose for their official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Environmental Rulings Reveal Supreme Court's Dangerous Ambitions
The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is reshaping how our government works in pursuit of an agenda of sweeping  deregulation.
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How a Bay Area Community is Fighting Port Pollution
The Port of Oakland wants to widen its basins, bringing more megaships — and more pollution — to an already overburdened community.
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We keep seeing evidence that corals can survive, become more resilient, and even recover if we give them a chance by cleaning up water quality, protecting them from coastal development and dredging, and reducing fishing pressure.
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A major roadblock in the transition to a clean energy future is surprisingly basic: We don’t have enough transmission lines to effectively move the power generated at clean energy hot spots to the places where we need it.
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The sun rises over a hazy New York City skyline as seen from Jersey City, N.J., June 7, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. (Seth Wenig / AP)
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