Justice

Gov. Moore Commits Funding for 67 Hires in Maryland’s Embattled Environment Department, Hoping to Fix Wastewater Treatment Woes

The move comes after an E. coli outbreak last year in Baltimore’s drinking water and “catastrophic failures” at its two wastewater treatment facilities.

By Aman Azhar

Minnesota Is Poised to Pass an Ambitious 100 Percent Clean Energy Bill. Now About Those Incinerators…

By Aydali Campa

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

The Poet Franny Choi Contemplates the End of the World (and What Comes Next)

By Kiley Bense

Six Environmental Justice Policy Fights to Watch in 2023

By Kristoffer Tigue, Aydali Campa, Darreonna Davis

In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma

After a Decade, Federal Officials Tighten Guidelines on Air Pollution

By Victoria St. Martin

The ‘Plant Daddy of Dallas’ Is Paving the Way for Clean, Profitable Urban Agriculture

By Autumn Jones

West Baltimore Residents, Students Have Mixed Feelings About Water Quality After E. Coli Contamination

By Darreonna Davis

NOAA Climate Scientists Cruise Washington and Baltimore for Hotspots—of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants

By Aman Azhar

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year

By Georgina Gustin

Study: Higher Concentrations Of Arsenic, Uranium In Drinking Water In Black, Latino, Indigenous Communities

By Victoria St. Martin, Aydali Campa

As Flooding Increases, Chicago Looks To Make Basement Housing Safer

By Siri Chilukuri, Borderless Magazine

Their Lives Were Ruined by Oil Pollution, and a Court Awarded Them $9.5 Billion. But Ecuadorians Have Yet to See a Penny From Chevron

By Katie Surma

A Gary, Indiana Plant Would Make Jet Fuel From Trash and Plastic. Residents Are Pushing Back

By James Bruggers

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

By Georgina Gustin

Finding the Antidote to Climate Anxiety in Stories About Taking Action

By Kiley Bense

Despite a Changing Climate, Americans Are ‘Flocking to Fire’

By Grace van Deelen