Environment & Health
EPA Formally Denies Alabama’s Plan for Coal Ash Waste
By Lee Hedgepeth
In Southern Brazil, Rescue Efforts Continue as Ongoing Flooding Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Displaced
By Kiley Price
‘Historic’ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Says Countries Must Prevent Greenhouse Gases From Harming Oceans
By Katie Surma
Significant Environmental and Climate Impacts Are Impinging on Human Rights in Every Country, a New Report Finds
By Katie Surma
The Midwest Could Be in for Another Smoke-Filled Summer. Here’s How States Are Preparing
By Kristoffer Tigue
As California Considers Warning Labels for Gas Stoves, Researchers Learn More About Their Negative Health Impacts
By Victoria St. Martin
After the Deluge, Images of Impacts and Resilience in Pájaro, California
By Liza Gross
Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?
By Kiley Bense
Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Triggering Outdoor Air Quality Alerts Across the Midwestern U.S. It Could Pollute the Indoors, Too
By Kiley Price
How the Drug War and Energy Transition Are Changing Ecuadorians’ Fight For The Rights of Nature
By Katie Surma
Alabama Coal Company Sued for a Home Explosion That Killed a Man Is Delinquent on Dozens of Penalties, Records Show
By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers
Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta: a Native Elder Fights Fossil Fuel Companies in Texas
Story and photos by Dylan Baddour
Maya van Rossum Wants to Save the World
By Kiley Bense
How Alabama Turned to Restrictive Deed Covenants to Ward Off Flooding Claims From Black Residents
By Lee Hedgepeth
Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year. A New UN Report Details the Impacts and Costs
By Bob Berwyn
In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts
By Victoria St. Martin