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Sea Level Rise and Sunny-Day Flooding Can’t Stop a Building Boom on the Jersey Shore

Developers and politicians are looking to the state’s Democratic governor, legislation or the courts for relief from stringent new state regulations limiting construction along the coast.

By Emilie Lounsberry

Trump’s EPA Seeks Looser Construction Rules for Gas Plants, Data Centers and Factories

By Charles Paullin

SPEED Act Passes in House Despite Changes That Threaten Clean Power Projects

By Aidan Hughes, Carl David Goette-Luciak

Old-Growth Forest in New Jersey at Center of Affordable Housing Debate

By Ryan Krugman

A Data Center Could Be Coming to an Upstate New York Town, and Residents Are Speaking Out

By Lauren Dalban

Power lines tower above a cornfield near New Bloomfield, Mo. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

As the Data Center Boom Ramps Up in the Rural Midwest, What Should Communities Expect?

By Alexia Underwood

New York City Needs More Housing. Should it Come With Promises to Protect Green Space?

By Lauren Dalban

Local beef rancher Ashlyn Bloom speaks against the aluminum recycling plant proposed by Aluminum Dynamics, Inc. at a Sept. 8 Benson City Council meeting. Credit: Courtesy of Ashlyn Bloom

Arizona Rural Grassroots Organizers Take on Industrial Developers, Aided by Urban Allies

By Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder

Kristi Naquin shows wind damaged screens at her home, built as part of the first federally funded relocation project in the United States. Naquin was among the more than 30 residents who used to live along the Louisiana coastline at Isle de Jean Charles, a mostly Indigenous community. Naquin says the 3-year-old homes are substandard. Credit: Jeffrey Basinger/Floodlight

As Millions Face Climate Relocation, the Nation’s First Attempt Sparks Warnings and Regret

By Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon, Floodlight

Led by Gen Z Activists, Community Opposition Mounts to Residential Development Next to South Jersey’s Black Run Reserve

By Naaja Flowers

Locals Oppose ‘Insane’ Plan to Sell 500,000 Acres of Public Lands for Housing in Nevada and Utah

By Wyatt Myskow

Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

For Alabama’s Spotted Salamanders, a Win and a Warning

By Lee Hedgepeth

In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams

By Dylan Baddour

In Alabama, a Fight for the Spotted Salamander

By Lee Hedgepeth

Developers See Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal as an Alluring New Waterfront. But for Years, It Stunk

By Jordan Gass-Pooré

How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields

By Daniel Propp

Endangered Bats Have Slowed, But Not Stopped, a Waterfront Mega-Development in Charleston. Could Flood Risk?

By Daniel Shailer

Flamingos fly over the Nartë lagoon, near the city of Vlorë, Albania. Credit: Gent Shkullaku/AFP via Getty Images

Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River

By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360

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