Environment

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Environment

Environment

Just 5% of America's food waste is composted. Which states are getting it done?

A person scraping vegetable scraps from a cutting board into a compost bin outdoors. The scraps include leafy greens, onion peels and eggshells.

Sustainability & Climate

A history of fast fashion: ethical issues, high demand, and outsized influence on the US clothing market

Person holding shopping bags over clothing waste dumping site.

Sustainability & Climate

How and why states are committing to electric vehicles

An electric car charging.

Sustainability & Climate

How Kamala Harris' political and economic approach could affect the financial markets

Male voter with bulletin in hands comes to a voting booth on US election day.

Sustainability & Climate

The rise in college student voting could have a big swing state impact on the presidential election

Students help staff the voter registration table in the student center of The College of New Jersey.

Environment

A new solution for flood-prone cities? Concrete made from shellfish waste.

A LeftCoast worker pouring a bucket of discarded shells into a machine.

Weather

Could permeable pavement ease flooding woes in New York City?

In Borough Park, permeable pavement is being installed along curb lines.

Sustainability & Climate

From restoring roads to advancing clean energy: How are states spending federal infrastructure dollars?

Workers moving equipment on a railway.

Environment

Inside fast fashion brands' love affair with uncomfortable, synthetic, and slow-to-biodegrade fabrics

Overhead view of woman laying on pile of fast fashion clothing with skeptical expression.

Environment

Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync

A pale yellow and black Swallowtail butterfly pollinating in a garden full of purple Rocky Mountain Penstemon flowers.