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Today, a coalition of over 45 groups, including environmental justice and civil rights organizations, along with community-based and grassroots groups, submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling on the agency to reject a petition filed by Republican attorneys general seeking to rescind critical Title VI protections. TheContinue Reading

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The central bank said it now needs to guard against the risk that the economy is too weak., Wednesday marked the third consecutive cut, with the central bank citing continued easing in broad inflationary pressures. The Bank of Canada (BoC) has trimmed its key policy rate by 25 basis pointsContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story is part of  State of Emergency , a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. It has been four years since Hurricane LauraContinue Reading

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It has been just over four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5 status — the fiercest storm the state had seen in a century. Six weeks later, Hurricane Delta, a Category 2, carved a near-identical gash through the Bayou State. That winter, aContinue Reading

China’s Zeekr unveils first family SUV, taking on Tesla

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Chinese electric vehicle maker Zeekr on Friday began taking orders for its first sports utility vehicle (SUV), the 7X, which will expand its EV range beyond its current sedans and multi-purpose vehicles to compete head-to-head with Tesla’s best-selling Model Y crossover. Scheduled for launch in September at a pre-sale price of RMB 239,900 ($33,812…Continue Reading

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‘Unscrupulous’ companies, ‘dishonesty and greed’ and regulatory failure are at fault., The Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people in June 2017, was the result of “an unedifying merry-go-round of buck passing” and “systematic dishonesty and greed”, a damning, 1,700-page final report on the disaster, published on Wednesday, has concluded.Continue Reading