Environment & Health
On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City
By Aman Azhar
A Proposed Gas Rate Hike in Chicago Sparks Debate Amid Shift to Renewable Energy
By Aydali Campa
‘Halliburton Loophole’ Allows Fracking Companies to Avoid Chemical Regulation
By Jon Hurdle
This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space
By Juanita Gordon
Malaria Cases in Florida and Texas Raise Prospect of Greater Transmission in a Warmer Future
By Victoria St. Martin
Miami is Used to Heat, but Not Like This
By Amy Green
The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints
By Dylan Baddour
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