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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

5 months ago

Black Snow: -- Big Sugar's Burning Problem

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Broken Promises: -- Salmon Disappear From the Pacific Northwest

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Disaster After Disaster: -- Growing Storms, Faltering Aid

5 months ago

Fracking: -- Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat

5 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Losing Ground: -- Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Nuclear Safety: -- After Fukushima

5 months ago

Paradise Lost: -- Hawaii's Disappearing Beaches

5 months ago

Polluter's Paradise: -- Environmental Impact in Louisiana

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

22 days ago

Selling a Mirage: -- The Deception Behind Plastic Recycling

5 months ago

Sunken Costs: -- Coal Ash in Georgia

5 months ago

The Cutting: -- Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

1 month ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever

29 days ago

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

29 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

The Biggest Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Grazing on Public Lands

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

23 hours ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 days ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune

3 months ago

The Texas Tribune

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

The New York Amsterdam News

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

12 days ago

City Cast Las Vegas

9 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

Are You Still Waiting for Assistance After Hurricane Helene? We Want to Hear From You.

2 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

The Drying Planet

3 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago