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Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say

By Greg Harman ● Solutions ● October 9, 2025

Medical professionals, advocates, and policy experts from San Antonio, Texas, share recent successes, challenges, and urge movement to keep residents safe from high heat and punishing pollution. 

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Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa

By Elyse Hauser ● Gulf Coast ● July 1, 2025

The U.S. military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore.

How to Save Lives During This Coming Summer’s Heat Waves

By Yale Climate Communications ● Extreme Heat ● April 18, 2025

After major cuts at FEMA and the National Weather Service, the role of local governments in protecting people from dangerous weather is growing even more important.

Texas ‘Mask Blocs’ Struggle to Fill COVID-19 Health Gaps as Federal and State Attacks Ramp Up

By Kit O’Connell ● Texas ● April 9, 2025

Volunteer- and anarchist-led groups are working overtime to keep their communities safe from COVID-19 even as Texas lawmakers debate a ban on masks and a warming planet promises more pandemics on the way.