Environment & Health
In Rural Puerto Rico, Water Systems Depend on Volunteers—and Threatened Federal Grants
By Sarah Mattalian
EPA Delays Compliance with Methane Rule, Fulfilling Oil and Gas Industry’s Request
By Aidan Hughes
UN Human Rights Experts and Scientists Urge Brazil’s President to Veto a Law That Would Cut Environmental Reviews
By Bob Berwyn
Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater 7 Years After Closure, Lawsuit Claims
By Dennis Pillion
EPA Rescinds Finding That Greenhouse Gas Emissions Harm Human Health, Hobbling U.S. Climate Action
By Wyatt Myskow
As Climate-Related Wastewater Threats Grow, U.S. and Mexico Sign a Deal to End the Tijuana Sewage Crisis
By Kiley Price
Earth’s Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling
By Katie Surma
Wildfire Evacuees and Asylum Seekers Strain Niagara Falls’ Housing Capacity During Tourism Season
By Angeles Ponpa and Ashley Soriano
Why Farmers May Be Able to Continue Fertilizing Fields With PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Sludge
By Tom Perkins
As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By
By Kiley Bense
As a Heat Wave Roiled Illinois, People Incarcerated Suffered The Most
By Siri Chilukuri
A New Jersey Shore Town Has Turned to Oysters to Fight Sea Level Rise and Erosion
By Emilie Lounsberry
Lessons From a Climate Disaster
By Katie Surma
Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center
By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom
Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin
By Jon Hurdle
Trump’s AI Action Plan Waives Federal Environmental Rules in the Development of Data Centers
By Arcelia Martin