Environment & Health
Climate Litigation Has Exploded, but Is it Making a Difference?
By Katie Surma
New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands
By Aydali Campa
Baltimore Won’t Expand a Program to Help Residents Clean up After Sewage Backups
By Aman Azhar
This Summer’s Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a New Analysis Shows
By Bob Berwyn
After Litigation and Local Outcry, Energy Company Says It Will Not Move Forward with LNG Plant in Florida Panhandle
By Amy Green
Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding
By Marianne Lavelle
A Shipping Rule Backfires, Diverting Sulfur Emissions From the Air to the Ocean
By Lydia Larsen
A Reckoning in North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and Racism
By Vernon Loeb
DeSantis Promised in 2018 That if Elected Governor, He Would Clean Up Florida’s Toxic Algae. The Algae Are Still Blooming
By Amy Green
European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law
By Bob Berwyn
As East Harlem Waits for Infrastructure Projects to Mitigate Flood Risk, Residents Are Creating Their Own Solutions
By Juanita Gordon
As an Obscure United Nations Gathering Deliberates the Fate of Deep-Sea Mining, the Tuna Industry Calls for a Halt
By Georgina Gustin
Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?
By Dennis Pillion, AL.com
Q&A: What to Do About Pollution From a Vast New Shell Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania
Midwest States, Often Billed as Climate Havens, Suffer Summer of Smoke, Drought, Heat
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Chloe Johnson, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families
By James Bruggers