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The War Horse @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As the Pentagon expands its footprint on Guam, is the Air Force complying with federal environmental law? That question goes before the Supreme Court in Oct. Read part 2 of our collaboration with @themarginus.bsky.social, examining the U.S. military's impact on Guam thewarhorse.org/guam-militar...
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Fortress Guam: The Environmental Cost of Preparing For War With China
As the U.S. military expands on Guam to prepare for a possible war with China, residents warn the buildup threatens the island’s environment.
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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 22/09/2026
For years, Guam residents feared U.S. military activity was poisoning their land and water. New records reveal decades of pesticide contamination at Andersen Air Force Base. A months-long investigation by @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social and @themarginus.bsky.social: thewarhorse.org/guam-militar...
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Guam Military Contamination: Records Reveal Toxic Pesticides
Previously unreleased military records reveal decades of pesticide contamination at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam and what officials knew about it.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For years, a banned pesticide sat in a Yigo drinking-water well. Residents weren't told to stop drinking it for more than 10 years. Federal officials flagged elevated dieldrin levels in Guam’s drinking water as early as 2012. Residents weren’t warned until 2025.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Margin wins its first Covering Climate Now Journalism Award for Outstanding Displacement & Migration Reporting for “Saving Sinking Homes” by Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon, with Katie Basile.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’re honored to win our first #CCNow Award!! Congratulations Jess Zhang, Megan Gannon, and @katiebasilephoto.bsky.social
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
About 500 New Yorkers die from heat every year. City officials call these deaths “entirely preventable.” If these deaths are preventable, why isn't cooling accessible to everyone who needs it?
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Presented by The Margin as part of the day-long Stories that Move at NYC Climate Week.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Margin wins its first Online Journalism Award in 2026 for Jess Zhang, Katie Basile, and Megan Gannon’s reporting, “Saving Sinking Homes” and ‘Morning Land that Leaves.” Here's what the judges had to say:
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@ottavias.bsky.social spent months reporting for The Margin on the United Houma Nation's fight for federal recognition and the Tribe's exposure to climate disasters. 2 years later, the Tribe received $56.5M to build the resilience infrastructure it needs. That work is underway now.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Environmental injustice doesn't end when the story runs. It ends when someone is held accountable. Join The Margin at #ClimateWeekNYC for "The Power of Journalism". 9/21, NYC. Register: luma.com/oopv0l2r
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“[Regulations] like that are designed not with science in mind, not with public health in mind, but with giving the utilities and the coal industry indirectly a break at the cost of the people who live closest to the facilities.” #CoalAsh #Kentucky
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Disasters disproportionately affect those who are already socio-economically marginalized in a community."
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“If you get evicted from a mobile home park, you will have to choose from the least bad of three options: Abandon your property outright, sell it for pennies on the dollar, or try to move it to another location." - @themarginus.bsky.social  themargin.us/features/the...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The strategy here is such an onslaught of changes to rules all at once that it's hard to keep up with them all," says Byron Gary, an attorney with the Kentucky Resources Council. #CoalAsh #Kentucky
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Swannanoa still has no post office, supermarket, or hardware store. But every week, Bounty & Soul's free market fills the gap with neighbors, cumbia, and fresh food. www.youtube.com/shorts/n4a8C...
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The Town With No Grocery Store #northcarolina #hurricane #news #journalism
When Hurricane Helene hit, many families in Western North Carolina were left with next to nothing. Two years later, some are still rebuilding. Swannanoa still doesn't have a post office, a…
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nearly two years after Hurricane Helene, undocumented homeowners in Swannanoa, NC, are still rebuilding. They're shut out of #FEMA aid entirely, no matter how long they've lived here or how much they've lost.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"It's the dirtiest place I've ever lived in my life," longtime resident Roger Mills told The Margin.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Coal ash is loaded with dangerous elements. Proving it made any one person sick is another story entirely, one most communities never get the resources to tell. #kentucky
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Indigenous-led programs like Calricaraq exist and are very built out and have a lot of research and backing behind them. They just need to be further invested in.” #Alaska #ClimateJustice www.instagram.com/reels/DbqP4O...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Families in Valley Station call their kids “smokestack babies.” Coal ash exposure has been linked to respiratory illness, neurological issues, and cancer. Demand on the plant is only expected to grow, driven in part by #datacenters. www.tiktok.com/@themargin_u...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“I knew living by LG&E was a bad thing,” said Marla Patterson. She lives in Valley Station, in the shadow of the Mill Creek Generating Station. Operated by Louisville Gas & Electric Company & Kentucky Utilities Energy, LLC, it's the last utility-scale coal-fired power plant in Jefferson County, KY.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New investigation: what it's like to live in the shadow of a coal plant staying online to meet data center demand 1/🧵 #environmentaljustice
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Those numbers aren't necessarily the whole story.” Photojournalist Katie Basile on documenting Typhoon Halong's aftermath in Western #Alaska, and why joy still belongs in the frame. www.tiktok.com/@themargin_u...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For a while, basketball kept kids from the Yup'ik villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk, displaced by Typhoon Halong, busy. But once the season ended, the real work began. www.tiktok.com/@themargin_u...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Nine months after Typhoon Halong displaced the Yup'ik villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk in Alaska, we brought together three people at the heart of recovery for a live conversation. Rose Domnick, Yup'ik trauma intervention expert, spoke to the importance of love. 1/🧵https://buff.ly/60H9sxy
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Join us tonight, Wed. July 15, for Inside: The Margin, a live conversation on healing, recovery, and what comes next for the two climate-impacted Western Alaska Native villages. Register now: buff.ly/yrCkVcC #indigenousyouth #climatechange #journalism
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 14/07/2026
Suicides among youth who evacuated Alaska Native villages after Typhoon Halong raise concerns around trauma responses to the climate disaster, writes Jess Zhang for @themarginus.bsky.social in partnership wuth Anchorage Press and KYUK. Read more @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/07/14/h...
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Haunted by Halong | Alaska Beacon
Suicides among youth who evacuated Alaska Native villages after Typhoon Halong raise concerns around trauma responses to the climate disaster.
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Water Hub @waterhub.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Six months after Typhoon Halong displaced more than 1,600 people across Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, most have yet to return home. Join @themarginus.bsky.social tomorrow for a conversation on Indigenous-led recovery & protecting the region’s young people. Register: riverside.com/webinar/regi...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The storm lasted one night. The healing is a generation's work. Join us LIVE on Wed. 7/15, 5 PM AKT / 9 PM ET for Healing a Generation, with photographer Katie Basile, school social worker Jim Biela & and Yup’ik healer Rose Domnick. #Alaska #IndigenousHealing Register now:
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Some residents are returning to the western Alaska Native villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk to rebuild, six months after the remnants of Typhoon Halong displaced nearly every resident of both villages. Jess Zhang for the Margin reports. www.tiktok.com/@themargin_u...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Six months after the remnants of #TyphoonHalong swept homes off their foundations in western Alaska, the water has receded. But for the young people of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk, the storm hasn't ended. #climatecrisis
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Aliyia Jones moved to Camden for relief after a train derailment displaced her. She found 14 scrapyard fires instead. 🧵
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Margin and @WHYY.org interviewed seven Waterfront South residents who experienced acute health symptoms or lingering psychological impacts after repeat fires at the EMR metal scrapyard recycling site. Christina Allen shared how her and her son’s health have been affected #publichealth
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In January 2021, Christina Allen was pregnant when she smelled burning plastic inside her Camden, New Jersey home. EMR's scrap metal facility was on fire less than half a mile away 🧵
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Residents have characterized EMR as a bad neighbor. What’s your response?” “I agree,” said Joe Balzano, EMR USA's CEO. www.youtube.com/shorts/8YIKm... #pollution #newjersey
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"We let them down.”
When asked how he’d respond to residents who’ve characterized EMR as a bad neighbor, the company’s own CEO said: “I agree.” Felicia Biles and her husband have evacuated their Camden, New Jersey home…
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
When Christina Allen came home from work in February 2025, the sky above her Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood had turned dark. “It looked like it could be a big fire cloud,” Allen said. “It looked like something from out of a movie scene.” buff.ly/BwsNirN
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Camden cut a deal with a junkyard to protect residents from fires. It didn't.
“It looked like it could be a big fire cloud,” Christine Allen said. “It looked like something from out of a movie scene.” When Christina Allen came home from work in February 2025, the sky above…
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"BioLab was completely preventable,” said Mindy Bish, an attorney at Keenan Law Firm who is representing some of the local residents affected by the 2024 #chemicaldisaster at the BioLab chemical facility in Conyers, GA.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"I just itched all night. And then it dawned on me: This residue is in my house.” Rockdale County resident Teresa Ervin-Springs describes the moment she realized the #BioLab #chemicaldisaster wasn’t over. buff.ly/p0V82w2
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Water Hub @waterhub.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
For over a century, Seattle City Light denied that salmon once moved through the upper Skagit River. Tribal elders and oral histories told a different story. Now, a landmark settlement commits Seattle to restoring fish passage. More from @themarginus.bsky.social ⬇️
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In September 2024, a fire at the BioLab plant in Conyers, GA, sent a toxic chemical plume across Rockdale County. Nearly 17,000 people evacuated. Another 90,000 were advised to shelter in place. Join us tonight to hear from those affected and learn what comes next. buff.ly/EtQVmyu
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"You've dug into the details and gotten past the sound bites into what has actually gone on here since these dams were built," said Skagit County attorney Will Honea, speaking on the impact of The Margin's reporting. “I think it's been a real game-changer...” www.tiktok.com/@themargin_u...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
For over a century, Seattle City Light publicly insisted there were never salmon above its Skagit River dams. Tribal elders and oral histories said otherwise.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The day before Seattle signed one of the most significant environmental settlements in PNW history, Scott Schuyler was on the Skagit River fishing for Chinook with his cousin, in waters Seattle City Light claimed had never been home to salmon. We uncovered the truth 1/🧵 buff.ly/t5KyJF1
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For over a century, Seattle City Light insisted the Skagit River was never home to salmon.
For over a century, Seattle City Light insisted the Skagit River was never home to salmon. But Scott Schuyler's Upper Skagit ancestors fished those waters for generations. The Margin’s investigation…
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
While driving home from church in Conyers, GA, Nicole Green received a notification. There was an explosion at the BioLab chemical facility.
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“What is very likely is that we're going to lose a lot more of our wetlands at even higher rates than what we've seen in the last century. And that will likely lead to a situation that New Orleans becomes more like a fortress...with most of the surrounding area basically open water." 1/🧵
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
✍️ Verite News New Orleans reporter Halle Parker 🌊 Amanda Moore, senior director of the Restore the Mississippi River Delta 🌳 Christina Lehew, executive director of Common Ground Relief 🥼 Tulane University's Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, geology professor, and Jesse M. Keenan, climate adaptation expert
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Louisiana could lose 75% of its remaining coastal wetlands by 2070. New Orleans could end up surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the century, say Tulane University researchers in Nature Sustainability. But communities aren't waiting to act. Join us tomorrow to learn more: buff.ly/ZMZOuWS
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Louisiana is losing land faster than almost anywhere on Earth. The communities that can least afford to leave are the ones most exposed. #climatejustice #environmentaljustice
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"We get told all the time that these programs are too expensive, that there's no money to do this work. And that's simply not true,” said freelance journalist Amal Ahmed. www.instagram.com/reel/DYAGhd6...
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The Margin @themarginus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"It is important to recognize that there are actual humans that have energy burdens and needs. If [legislators] heard more of [people's stories], these decisions would be easier for them to make."Aqsa Mengal, Climate & Clean Energy Policy Lead at @frontandcentered.org buff.ly/g9yTpTT
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