Environment & Health
A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline
By Dylan Baddour
They Fell Sick After Cleaning Up a TVA Toxic Disaster. A New Book Details Their Legal Battle
By James Bruggers
Failure of State: For Decades, Alabama’s Mining Regulator Has Left Citizens Unprotected
By Lee Hedgepeth
Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
US Forest Service Hiring Freeze Could Have Long-Term Impacts
By Zoë Rom
Biden Sets Higher U.S. Goal Under the Climate Pact That Trump Aims to Abandon
By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Computer Modeling Shows Carcinogen From Goodyear Plant Is Invading Niagara Falls Neighborhoods
By Jim Morris and Emyle Watkins
The Sunbelt’s Growing Population Faces Increasing Climate Hazards
By Wyatt Myskow
A Florida Commission Keeps Approving Utility Plans With Lots of Fossil Fuels. Now Young Adults Are Suing
By Amy Green
An Enbridge Oil Spill in Wisconsin Is Eroding Trust as the Fight Over Line 5 Continues
By Kristoffer Tigue
Shell Wins Injunctions Against UK Gas Station Protesters Amid Growing Threats to Activism
By Keerti Gopal
Levels of Cancer-Causing Benzene Reached New Heights in Beleaguered Channelview. Regulators Never Told Residents
By Savanna Strott, Public Health Watch
Hurricane Helene Killed 49 in South Carolina’s Upstate Region as Costs of Damage and Response Exceed $370 Million
By Emmy Ribero
Texas Regulators Report More Than 250 New Cases of Groundwater Contamination
By Martha Pskowski
As the Clock Ticks to Act on the Climate Crisis, N.C. Activists Target a ‘Carbon Plan’
By Lisa Sorg
How the Renewable Energy Boom Is Remaking the American West
By Jimmy Tobias