Environment & Health
A Frequent Culprit, China Is Also an Easy Scapegoat
By Ian Urbina
Q&A: After its Hottest Summer On Record, Phoenix’s Mayor Outlines the City’s Future
By Wyatt Myskow
Answers About Old Gas Sites Repurposed as Injection Wells for Fracking’s Toxic Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed
By Jake Bolster
Q&A: America’s 20-Year War in Afghanistan Is Over, but Some of the U.S. Military’s Waste May Last Forever
Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”
Texas Quietly Moves to Formalize Acceptable Cancer Risk From Industrial Air Pollution. Public Health Officials Say it’s not Strict Enough.
By Dylan Baddour
As Alabama Judge Orders a Takeover of a Failing Water System, Frustrated Residents Demand Federal Intervention
By Lee Hedgepeth
A Reality Check About Solar Panel Waste and the Effects on Human Health
By Dan Gearino
A Rural Pennsylvania Community Goes to Commonwealth Court, Trying to Stop a New Disposal Well for Toxic Fracking Wastewater
By Jake Bolster
Tensions Rise in the Rio Grande Basin as Mexico Lags in Water Deliveries to the U.S.
By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, photos by Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times
The Danger Upstream: In Disposing Coal Ash, One of These States is Not Like the Others
By Lee Hedgepeth
Desert Bats Face the Growing, Twin Threats of White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Turbines
By Emma Peterson
Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate
By James Bruggers
At a ‘Climate Convergence,’ Pennsylvania Environmental Activists Urge Gov. Shapiro and State Lawmakers to Do More to Curb Emissions
By Jon Hurdle
In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain
By Aman Azhar
Why New York’s Curbside Composting Program Will Yield Hardly Any Compost
By Jake Bolster
First Floods, Now Fires: How Neglect and Fraud Hobbled an Alabama Town
By Lee Hedgepeth