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Nick Dornak, the president of the nonprofit group Friends of the Brazos River canoes the John Graves Scenic Riverway during a photo shoot with his 11-year-old daughter Emery. His father-in-law, Ed Lowe founded Friends of the Brazos and led the years long fight for legislation to protect this section of the river from industrial polluters. Credit: Meridith Kohut for The Texas Observer

Drifting Toward Disaster: Breaking the Brazos

By Kathryn Jones, Texas Observer

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is testing out a new technology, inside this trailer, which could destroy harmful PFAS chemicals that have been removed from groundwater. Credit: Shari L. Gross, Star Tribune

Destroying ‘Forever Chemicals’ is a Technological Race that Could Become a Multibillion-dollar Industry

By Chloe Johnson, Star Tribune

Coal ash pond D at Possum Point Power Station in Dumfries, Virginia on June 26, 2015. Credit: Kate Patterson for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Coal Ash Along the Shores of the Great Lakes Threatens Water Quality as Residents Rally for Change

By Grace van Deelen

A view of the Colorado River from the Navajo Bridge in Marble Canyon, Arizona on Aug. 31, 2022. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

States Have Proposals, But No Consensus, On Curbing Water Shortages In Colorado River Basin

By Wyatt Myskow

Texas Oilfield Waste Company Contributed $53,750 to Regulators Overseeing a Controversial Permit Application

By Martha Pskowski

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces oil in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

Construction continues in October 2022 on a new section of homes at Festival Ranch in Buckeye, Arizona. Future development in the city, 35 miles west of Phoenix, could be imperiled by a lack of water. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images.

Arizona’s New Governor Takes on Water Conservation and Promises to Revise the State’s Groundwater Management Act

By Wyatt Myskow

A wave crashes off Teahupoo, Tahiti, on Aug. 28, 2019. Credit: Brian Bielmann/AFP via Getty Images

Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A photo illustration of tap water in a clear glass drinking glass. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Study: Higher Concentrations Of Arsenic, Uranium In Drinking Water In Black, Latino, Indigenous Communities

By Victoria St. Martin, Aydali Campa

A boat dock sits on dry ground far from the water at Lake Mendocino on April 22, 2021 in Ukiah, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

John Entsminger, who runs the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said states will probably come up with an "imperfect alternative" to last until 2026, when current rules for managing the Colorado River expire and states are expected to draw up a "longer-term, more durable solution." Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

‘It Is Going to Take Real Cuts to Everyone’: Leaders Meet to Decide the Future of the Colorado River

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A fracking site is situated on the outskirts of town in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Jayden Mitchell, youth volunteer with the Santa Clara Pueblo forestry department, plants conifer seedlings near a pond in the Santa Clara canyon floodplain. Credit: Sara Van Note

Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

By Sara Van Note

Ali Liban Guracho walks past dozens of dead cattle outside Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

By Georgina Gustin

Josh Shapiro gives a victory speech to supporters at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center on Nov. 8, 2022 in Oaks, Pennsylvania. Shapiro defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

Clean-Water Plea Suggests New Pennsylvania Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations by Energy Companies, Advocates Say

By Jon Hurdle

A fracking operation takes place on leased farm land near Dimock, Pennsylvania, where dairy farms used to dominate. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

Fracking Company to Pay for Public Water System in Rural Pennsylvania Town

By Jon Hurdle

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