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ProPublica - Environment

Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.

13 hours ago

An Oregon Law Lets One Wealthy Region Turn the Desert Green. When Drought Hits, Farmers Pay the Price.

3 days ago

Oregon Leaders Are Trying to Save the Deschutes River. Here's Why That's So Hard.

3 days ago

U.S. Forest Service Stops Issuing Firefighter Pants That Contain PFAS, Following ProPublica's Reporting

4 months ago

New Bills Seek to Rein In Oil Companies' Pollution of Oklahoma Groundwater

5 months ago

Our Reporting Showed Washington Ranks Last in Green Energy Growth. Now the State Is Working to Speed It Up.

5 months ago

After the Flood: -- The Challenge of Rebuilding as the Climate Changes

8 months ago

Black Snow: -- Big Sugar's Burning Problem

8 months ago

Bombs in Our Backyard: -- Investigating One of America's Greatest Polluters

8 months ago

Broken Promises: -- Salmon Disappear From the Pacific Northwest

8 months ago

Buried Truth: -- Digging Into Omaha's Lead Contamination

27 days ago

California Burning: -- The Climate Crisis is Setting the State on Fire

8 months ago

Carbon Captured: -- How the Fossil Fuel Industry Turned a Plan to Solve Climate Change Into a Plan to Save Itself

4 days ago

Disaster After Disaster: -- Growing Storms, Faltering Aid

8 months ago

Fracking: -- Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat

8 months ago

Free Range: -- The High Cost of Public Lands Ranching

6 months ago

Gulf Oil Spill: -- Investigating the Impact of the BP Spill

28 days ago

Injection Wells: -- The Hidden Risks of Pumping Waste Underground

8 months ago

Killing the Colorado: -- The Water Crisis in the West

8 months ago

Losing Ground: -- Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly

8 months ago

Nike's Gold Standard: -- Testing Nike's Corporate Responsibility Claims

8 months ago

Nuclear Safety: -- After Fukushima

8 months ago

Paradise Lost: -- Hawaii's Disappearing Beaches

8 months ago

Polluter's Paradise: -- Environmental Impact in Louisiana

8 months ago

Pollution Profiteers: -- Inside California's Toxic Hauling Industry

8 months ago

Power Grab: -- How Green Energy Hurts Washington's Tribes

8 months ago

Power Struggle: -- What Stalled the Northwest's Push for Green Energy?

8 months ago

Roots of an Outbreak: -- How the Next Pandemic Could Start

8 months ago

Sacrifice Zones: -- Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution

3 months ago

Selling a Mirage: -- The Deception Behind Plastic Recycling

8 months ago

Sunken Costs: -- Coal Ash in Georgia

8 months ago

The Cutting: -- Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon

8 months ago

The Great Climate Migration: -- A Warming Planet and a Shifting Population

8 months ago

The New Power Brokers: -- West Virginia's Natural Gas Industry

8 months ago

Toxic Pressure: -- How Oklahoma Lets Oil Companies Contaminate Drinking Water

4 months ago

Unplugged: -- Will Taxpayers Foot the Oil Industry's Cleanup Bill?

8 months ago

Unreasonable Risk: -- Formaldehyde Threatens the Health of Nearly Everyone

8 months ago

Waiting for Water: -- Tribes' Fight for a Promised Resource

8 months ago

Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change

4 days ago

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

4 days ago

I Cold-Called President Trump. Here's What He Told Me About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor.

6 days ago

Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.

13 days ago

Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator's Coal Companies

21 days ago

Toxic Ground: How Oil Field Pollution Is Threatening Oklahoma

27 days ago

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can't Help.

1 month ago

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation's Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

1 month ago

Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods

1 month ago

Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges "Healthy Skepticism" of Climate Science

1 month ago

"A Huge Setback": New EPA Directive Could Weaken Hundreds of Chemical Regulations

1 month ago

Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash

2 months ago

What You Should Know About Lead Contamination in Omaha, Nebraska

2 months ago

Lo que debe saber sobre la contaminación por plomo en Omaha, Nebraska

2 months ago

Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren't Tested for Lead.

2 months ago

Omaha tiene un sitio Superfund masivo. A la mayoría de los niños que vive allí no se les hacen pruebas de plomo.

2 months ago

"Economic Civil War": States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability

2 months ago

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write an Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules

2 months ago

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever

3 months ago

Emergency Managers: Help ProPublica Prepare to Report on the Next Disaster

3 months ago

Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why.

4 months ago

As Helene Survivors Wait for State Help, Some Victims of Earlier Hurricanes Are Still Out of Their Homes

4 months ago

Firefighters Wore Gear Containing "Forever Chemicals." The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years.

4 months ago

Documenting an Alaska Village, Before and After the Storm That Destroyed It

5 months ago

The Biggest Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Grazing on Public Lands

5 months ago

Trump's EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules

5 months ago

Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here's What Changed This Year.

5 months ago

La EPA estaba considerando una limpieza masiva de plomo en Omaha. Pero luego Trump cambió las directrices.

6 months ago

¿Vive en el área de Omaha o Council Bluffs? Regístrese para una prueba gratuita de la detección de plomo.

2 months ago

Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State's Energy Supply

6 months ago

The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance.

6 months ago

Do You Live in the Omaha and Council Bluffs Area? Sign Up for Free Lead Testing of Your Soil.

3 months ago

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale

6 months ago

Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.

6 months ago

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune

6 months ago

The Texas Tribune

1 month ago

Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and "Cultural Power" Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight

6 months ago

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.

6 months ago

A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact

6 months ago

New York Moves Forward With a Brooklyn Flood Protection Plan That Falls Short of Other City Projects

7 months ago

The New York Amsterdam News

7 months ago

Trump's Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.

7 months ago

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

7 months ago

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.

8 months ago

Show Us What It's Like to Live with Oil Pollution in Oklahoma

1 month ago

House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on PFNA, a Toxic Forever Chemical

8 months ago