Environment & Health
The Steep Environmental Costs of China’s Massive Global Development
ICN Sunday Morning
Chicago Has Hundreds of Thousands of Toxic Lead Pipes—and Millions of Unspent Dollars to Replace Them
By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts
By Katie Surma
Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened?
By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino
‘A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In
By Leigh Giangreco
Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania
By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino
Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’
Story and photos by Nina Dietz
Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows
By Liza Gross
Climate Activists Disrupt Fossil Fuel Executive at Harvard University Symposium
By Phil McKenna
Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding
By Carl David Goette-Luciak
One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine
By Wyatt Myskow
North Carolina Cattle Farmer to Pay $92,000 for Damaging Mountain Streams
By Lisa Sorg
Buffalo Tests Its Status as a Climate Refuge
By Finya Swai, Erin Drumm
Nominee for Top Federal Water Role Withdraws Amid Pushback from Some Colorado River States
By Alex Hager, KUNC
Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns
By Phil McKenna
Dominion’s Proposed Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says
By Charles Paullin