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As Harsh Financial Realities Emerge, St. Croix’s Limetree Bay Refinery Could Be Facing Bankruptcy

The recently reopened Caribbean oil refinery hasn’t made loan payments in over a year, investors are backing out and residents are envisioning an economy without it.

By Kristoffer Tigue

Q&A: With Climate Change-Fueled Hurricanes and Wildfire on the Horizon, a Trauma Expert Offers Ways to Protect Your Mental Health

By James Bruggers

Thousands Came to Minnesota to Protest New Construction on the Line 3 Pipeline. Hundreds Left in Handcuffs but More Vowed to Fight on.

By Sam Palca, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna

Dawn Goodwin and 300 Environmental Groups Consider the new Line 3 Pipeline a Danger to All Forms of Life

By Audrey Gray

With Trump Gone, Old Fault Lines in the Climate Movement Reopen, Complicating Biden’s Path Forward

By Marianne Lavelle

With the World Focused on Reducing Methane Emissions, Even Texas Signals a Crackdown on ‘Flaring’

By Jonathan Moens

‘Suezmax’ Oil Tankers Could Soon Be Plying the Poisoned Waters of Texas’ Lavaca Bay

By Aman Azhar

For the Second Time in Four Years, the Ninth Circuit Has Ordered the EPA to Set New Lead Paint and Dust Standards

By Agya K. Aning

California’s Relentless Droughts Strain Farming Towns

By Liza Gross

Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports

By Bob Berwyn

Citing an ‘Imminent’ Health Threat, the EPA Orders Temporary Shut Down of St. Croix Oil Refinery

By Kristoffer Tigue

A U.S. Virgin Islands Oil Refinery Had Yet Another Accident. Residents Are Demanding Answers

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project—and Jobs

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Expansion of I-45 in Downtown Houston Is on Hold, for Now, in a Traffic-Choked, Divided Region

By Aman Azhar

The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes

By Judy Fahys

EPA to Send Investigators to Probe ‘Distressing’ Incidents at the Limetree Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Kristoffer Tigue

A New Program Like FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change and Transition to Renewable Energy

By Judy Fahys

The EPA Calls an Old Creosote Works in Pensacola an Uncontrolled Threat to Human Health. Why Is There No Money to Clean it Up?

By Agya K. Aning, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue

Race, Poverty, Farming and a Natural Gas Pipeline Converge In a Rural Illinois Township

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times