The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe carcinogens. ProPublica reveals where these places are in a first-of-its-kind map and data analysis.
Poison in the air

The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe carcinogens. ProPublica reveals where these places are in a first-of-its-kind map and data analysis.
Using the EPA’s data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level. Look up your home to see if you and your loved ones are living in a hot spot.
“The reality is that we already have the solutions; the solution should be coming from the community,” one local leader said of Detroit’s new climate planning effort.
Detroit says its new climate strategy will empower residents. Activists have questions is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service covering the clean energy transition. If you would like to support us please make a donation.
Energy Harbor’s announced closing of the Sammis plant means solar projects in Ohio’s regulatory pipeline already exceed the coal power that will remain after 2028.
Ohio’s solar project queue on pace to surpass coal capacity this decade is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service covering the clean energy transition. If you would like to support us please make a donation.
Methane is the second most common greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide.