Super-Pollutants

Asheboro, North Carolina, Is Under Pressure to Control Discharges of a Toxic Chemical Into Drinking Water Supply

The EPA wants the city of 28,000 to rein in an industrial solvent, 1,4-Dioxane, from its wastewater discharges. So far, Asheboro has refused.

By Lisa Sorg

Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts

By Dana Drugmand

Environmentalists Sue Regulator Over Extension of Construction Permit for LNG Export Terminal in New Jersey

By Jon Hurdle

Iowa Counties Keep Water Quality Monitoring Afloat After State Funding Cuts

By Anika Jane Beamer

A Pro-Dominion Grassroots Group Has Financial Ties—to Dominion

By Charles Paullin

Gulf South Residents and Green Groups Sue Trump and EPA Over Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions

By Keerti Gopal

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

By Georgina Gustin

New England Says Goodbye to Coal as Merrimack Station Powers Down

By Ryan Krugman

China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing.

Story by Nicholas Kusnetz, data analysis by Peter Aldhous

Gas Plant That’s Part of PJM’s Fast-Tracked Process Is Getting Pushback in Virginia 

By Charles Paullin

Pennsylvania Community Groups Urge Officials to Restrict Data Center Development

By Jon Hurdle

Federal Actions Make New York’s Energy Future More Uncertain

By Lauren Dalban

Coal Miners and Advocates Plead With Trump to Enforce Black Lung Rule

By Aidan Hughes

A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals

By Lisa Sorg

Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To.

By Anika Jane Beamer

EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants

By Jon Hurdle

Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking

By Kiley Bense

Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant

By Dylan Baddour

Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests

By K.R. Callaway