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ProPublica - Environment

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

29 days ago

Oregon Fast-Tracks Renewable Energy Projects as Trump Bill Ends Tax Incentives

1 month ago

Top Democrat on Oversight Committee Demands Trump Administration Account for Wildland Firefighter Vacancies

3 months ago

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

18 days ago

Black Snow: -- Big Sugar's Burning Problem

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

Broken Promises: -- Salmon Disappear From the Pacific Northwest

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

Disaster After Disaster: -- Growing Storms, Faltering Aid

18 days ago

Fracking: -- Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

Losing Ground: -- Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

Nuclear Safety: -- After Fukushima

18 days ago

Paradise Lost: -- Hawaii's Disappearing Beaches

18 days ago

Polluter's Paradise: -- Environmental Impact in Louisiana

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

Selling a Mirage: -- The Deception Behind Plastic Recycling

18 days ago

Sunken Costs: -- Coal Ash in Georgia

18 days ago

The Cutting: -- Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

16 days ago

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

17 days ago

Help Us Report on the Impact of Oil Field Waste in Oklahoma

17 days ago

Elon Musk's Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

1 month ago

City Cast Las Vegas

4 months ago

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn't Released It.

1 month ago

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

1 month ago

This Family Will Return Home After Helene. Their Onerous Journey to Rebuild Shows Why Many Others Won't.

1 month ago

Are You Still Rebuilding After Hurricane Helene? We Want to Hear From You.

1 month ago

Elon Musk Has Criticized Environmental Regulations. His Companies Have Been Accused of Sidestepping Them.

1 month ago

Elon Musk Pushed Back on Our Reporting on His Houston Tunnels Plan. Experts Say His Comments Are Misleading.

2 months ago

Trump Says America's Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries'. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

2 months ago

A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding

2 months ago

Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce's Push for Elon Musk's xAI Data Center

2 months ago

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

2 months ago

How One Oregon Activist Is Using a Decades-Old Liberal Policy to Stall Green Energy Projects in Rural Areas

3 months ago

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State's Wildfire Risk Map

3 months ago

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth's Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater

3 months ago

The Drying Planet

3 months ago

"Under the Microscope": Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show

3 months ago

The Forest Service Claims It's Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs.

3 months ago

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches

3 months ago

Texas Lawmakers Largely Ignored Recommendations Aimed at Helping Rural Areas Like Kerr County Prepare for Flooding

3 months ago

Texas Officials Say They Didn't See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.

3 months ago

Some Texas Officials Didn't Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene

4 months ago

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come

4 months ago

Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West's Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise.

4 months ago

Trump's First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.

4 months ago

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

5 months ago

EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Disinfectant in an ICE Facility

5 months ago

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here's How It Went Wrong.

5 months ago

Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn't Reach People in Harm's Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane.

5 months ago

Helene's Unheard Warnings

5 months ago

Higher Prices, Rolling Blackouts: The Northwest Is Bracing for the Effects of a Lagging Green Energy Push

6 months ago

Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.

6 months ago

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes' Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.

6 months ago

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

6 months ago

Earthjustice President Describes a "Fundamentally Different" Era of Hostility Toward Environmentalists

6 months ago

Trump's EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters

7 months ago

Trump Said Cuts Wouldn't Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.

7 months ago

TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson's. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.

7 months ago

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

7 months ago

The Doublespeak of Energy Secretary Chris Wright

7 months ago

Tổng thống Trump đã dừng hoạt động xử lý chất độc da cam. Việc làm này khiến cho hàng trăm nghìn người gặp nguy cơ bị nhiễm độc.

7 months ago

Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.

7 months ago

Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections

8 months ago

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

8 months ago

How Trump's Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire

9 months ago