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ProPublica - Environment

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

3 months ago

Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change

3 months ago

EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells

16 days ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

10 months ago

Black Snow: -- Big Sugar's Burning Problem

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Broken Promises: -- Salmon Disappear From the Pacific Northwest

10 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

3 months ago

Disaster After Disaster: -- Growing Storms, Faltering Aid

10 months ago

Fracking: -- Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat

10 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Losing Ground: -- Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Nuclear Safety: -- After Fukushima

10 months ago

Paradise Lost: -- Hawaii's Disappearing Beaches

10 months ago

Polluter's Paradise: -- Environmental Impact in Louisiana

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

6 months ago

Selling a Mirage: -- The Deception Behind Plastic Recycling

10 months ago

Sunken Costs: -- Coal Ash in Georgia

10 months ago

The Cutting: -- Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

How the Planet-Altering Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

16 days ago

Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land.

25 days ago

They Rebuilt After Texas' Devastating Floods. Then Their Home Flooded Again.

1 month ago

Más del 50% de los hogares del este de Omaha tiene niveles inseguros de plomo. No significa que la EPA los limpiará.

1 month ago

More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn't Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.

1 month ago

La contaminación por plomo sigue siendo un problema en Omaha. ¿Por qué la ciudad limpia unos patios y otros no?

1 month ago

Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?

1 month ago

Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has Power Over Is Falling Apart.

1 month ago

La EPA casi nunca repite las pruebas en el mayor sitio de Superfund residencial con plomo del país, pero nosotros sí

1 month ago

The EPA Doesn't Typically Retest Homes in the Country's Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.

1 month ago

La EPA anuncia su limpieza de Omaha como un éxito, pero encontramos muchos patios que tienen niveles tóxicos de plomo

1 month ago

The EPA Spent Millions Cleaning Up a Massive Superfund Site. Our Tests Found Toxic Levels of Lead in Many Yards.

1 month ago

Solar Developer Cancels Washington State Project on Sacred Indigenous Land

1 month ago

The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement

2 months ago

Left in the Dust: How a Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant Took Over a Detroit Community

2 months ago

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Toxic Ground: How Oil Field Pollution Is Threatening Oklahoma

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash

5 months ago

What You Should Know About Lead Contamination in Omaha, Nebraska

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

The Biggest Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Grazing on Public Lands

8 months ago

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

8 months ago