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Children play in Signal Hill’s Hilltop Park with the Tesoro Corp. oil refinery in the background in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California. The story of the city is deeply intertwined with the oil industry. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA
Children play in Signal Hill’s Hilltop Park with the Tesoro Corp. oil refinery in the background in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California. The story of the city is deeply intertwined with the oil industry. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA

America's dirty divide: about this series

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A series investigating the country’s vast environmental inequalities – and how climate change will make things worse

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