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ProPublica - Environment

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

3 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

20 days ago

The Drying Planet

23 days ago

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

3 days ago

Washington Governor Orders Team to Study Data Centers' Impact on Energy Use, Job Creation and Tax Revenue

6 months ago

Hydroelectric Dams on Oregon's Willamette River Kill Salmon. Congress Says It's Time to Consider Shutting Them Down.

7 months ago

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

25 days ago

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

25 days ago

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches

26 days ago

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

27 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Helene's Unheard Warnings

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

The Doublespeak of Energy Secretary Chris Wright

4 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.

4 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

5 months ago

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

6 months ago

How Trump's EPA Threatens Efforts to Clean Up Areas Affected Most by Dangerous Air Pollution

6 months ago

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream

6 months ago

North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He's Set to Run the Agency.

6 months ago

Donald Trump's No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm

6 months ago

This Storm-Battered Town Voted for Trump. He Has Vowed to Overturn the Law That Could Fix Its Homes.

7 months ago

After the Palisades Fire, What Can We Really Rebuild?

7 months ago

Elon Musk's Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

7 months ago

City Cast Las Vegas

1 month ago

EPA Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents an "Unreasonable Risk" to Public Health

7 months ago

The American Oil Industry's Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

7 months ago

U.S. Senator Urges EPA to Release "Science-Based" Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks

7 months ago

How to Reduce Formaldehyde Exposure in Your Home

8 months ago

How Much Formaldehyde Is in Your Car, Your Kitchen or Your Furniture? Here's What Our Testing Found.

8 months ago

Check the Formaldehyde Cancer Risk in Your Neighborhood

8 months ago

Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant. Little Is Being Done to Curb the Risk.

8 months ago

Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down

9 months ago

The Ghosts of John Tanton

9 months ago

FEMA Told Victims of New Mexico's Largest Wildfire It Can't Pay for Emotional Harm. A Judge Will Likely Rule It Must.

9 months ago

Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping.

10 months ago

Jennifer Smith Richards

10 months ago

Tow Center for Digital Journalism

10 months ago