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America’s schools are crumbling. Fixing them could save lives (and the planet)

The Hechinger Report

Taken together, school facilities emit about 72 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year , the equivalent of about 18 coal power plants or 8.6 But much as the pandemic forced a reckoning about the physical condition of America’s classrooms, it may also have cleared a way for the federal government to rebuild them.

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