Environment & Health
Navigating the Troubled Waters of Newtown Creek Means an Environmental Cleanup in Brooklyn and Queens That Will Cost At Least $3.3 Billion
By Jordan Gass-Pooré
Amid Community Opposition, Alabama Hyperscale Data Center Project Hits a Speed Bump
By Lee Hedgepeth
Commenters Decry Proposed Repeal of Endangerment Finding in First Day of Public Hearings
By Aidan Hughes
Amid Tense Negotiations Over the Colorado River’s Future, Arizona Mayors Unite Against ‘Threat’ to State’s Water
By Wyatt Myskow
Alabama Town’s Residents Seek Preemptive Strike Against Massive Data Center Project
By Dennis Pillion
A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won
By Christiana Freitag
Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land
By Wyatt Myskow
‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements
By Ryan Krugman
The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door
By Liza Gross
The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape
By Nicholas Kusnetz
El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse
Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje
From Landfills and Recycling Programs to Desks in Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers
By Liza Gross
‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: After Another Explosion at Clairton Coke Works, Advocates Call for Accountability
By Kiley Bense
Plastic Pollution Talks in Geneva End Without Treaty
By Bob Berwyn
New York Already Denied Permits to These Gas Pipelines. Under Trump, They Could Get Greenlit
By Deep Vakil
Chicago Aims To Have Most Air Pollution Sensors in the US
By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times