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The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year trying to defang the Endangered Species Act, the country’s bedrock conservation…
This story was published in partnership with The Assembly. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has fined Durham, N. C. -based American Efficient $722 mill…
Municipal water system leaders and nonprofits gathered in Washington, D. C. , to lobby Congress as part of Water Week 2026 focused on two priorities: securing…
Nearly half the nation’s children live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Associat…
Florida households had their electricity shut off some 2. 1 million times in 2024 because of an inability to pay, a number that was among the highest of any st…
Anyone who has ever been told to lower their sodium intake knows they have to cut back on the usual salty suspects, from potato chips to deli meats. But the wa…
Maryland lawmakers’ new solution for rising utility bills reduces a surcharge funding an effective energy-efficiency program, offers rebates by raiding the sta…
Reporting for this story was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. TOM GREEN COUNTY, Texas— Some Texas oil wells gush hundreds of ba…
WASHINGTON, D. C. —The ongoing war in Iran is casting a long shadow over the climate finance commitments countries agreed to in 2024, experts warned, as surgin…
Raschelle Grandison had just walked out her front door to grab something from her car on a chilly March morning in 2019 when she stopped dead in her tracks. &#…
Jim Wright ran for the Railroad Commission of Texas six years ago as a reformer. But his reforms drew the ire of powerful oil tycoons who are now trying to uns…
The Resistance, Part 1: With an army of lawyers, an activist legend squares off against polluting industries along the Texas coast she calls home.   SEADR…
PHILADELPHIA— Sitting on a dais at the private Fitler Club for what was billed as a discussion about “the Path to a Clean Energy Future, ” former Philadelphia…
As Texas confronts decades of water mismanagement and growing demands for electricity from data centers, the state’s top utility regulator, Public Utility Comm…
In its most recent energy affordability legislation, the Maryland Senate has reversed key utility accountability proposals passed by the state House and added…
Exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy could increase the risk of childhood asthma, according to new research from Sweden. Researchers from Lund Univ…
Seven Democratic U. S. senators have launched a probe into a $370 million “alternative fuel” payout to Cheniere Energy, made earlier this year by the IRS, that…
From the cold snap this winter to the U. S. ’s war with Iran, rising energy bills are making headlines. But there’s a larger story behind spikes in gas-utility…
The Rev. Kurt Gerhard stood near the lectern in Christ Church Bronxville. Beneath him, a network of pipes stretched into a nearby parking lot, where boreholes…
PHILLIPS COUNTY, Mont. —The American buffalo— those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States— have joined wind turbi…
Curt Brown spent his childhood harvesting lobsters along the coast of Maine. As an adult, he went on to earn a Master of Science from the University of Maine,…
Republican state lawmakers want a temporary pause on Virginia’s 32 cent per gallon gas tax to help offset rising prices at the pump resulting from President Do…
FAIRMONT, N. C. —Craig Watts unlocked a small room made of plywood, flipped on the lights and tapped the photos he had taped to the fuse box.   Tap, tap,…
Florida Power & Light’s profit margins consistently ranked among the highest in the nation over the past five years and topped other utilities’ in 2024 and…
Ask Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, whether Pennsylvania politicians are doing anything about the swelling public concern over data center development in the comm…
Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in early March across the Western United States after a winter with historically low snowpacks, which supplies…
Each strip of wood in Richard Silliboy’s hands started as a year of an ash tree’s life. Silliboy, 79, is a member of the Mi’kmaq tribe and a master basketmaker…
It started in December, when dead fish began washing ashore New Ireland— a mountainous island in Papua New Guinea’s New Ireland Province, flanked by the Pacifi…
For four years, battles over private property rights have gridlocked state legislatures across the Midwest and stalled plans for a pipeline to transport liquif…
The Trump administration is turning to the nuclear option on endangered-species protections in the name of national security. A rarely tapped panel nicknamed t…
A proposed Google data center in Michigan is notable for its use of renewable energy and its ability to ramp down power use during periods of high demand. The…
The Trump administration handed farmers and the ethanol industry a win on Wednesday by issuing a waiver that will allow the use of higher corn-based ethanol bl…
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a long-time apostle of fossil fuel expansion, issued a blunt directive to the world’s largest oil and gas producers on Monday: P…
Communities across the Western United States are in for another week of unusually high temperatures amid an ongoing and historic early-season heat wave. It has…
A new report on global air pollution shows that the majority of the world’s population breathes unhealthy air, and climate change is making the problem worse.…
Reporting supported by the Water Desk at the University of Colorado, Boulder. BROWNSVILLE, Texas— An experiment unfolding at the southernmost tip of this state…
MAIKIUANTS, Ecuador— By the time Olger Kitiar reached the ridge, his shirt was wet with sweat, clinging to his back. Built with the solid frame of a linebacker…
OAK GROVE, Ala. —It’s been a long two years for Lisa Lindsay.   And every day since her neighbor’s home exploded above an expanding coal mine in March 202…
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Friday approved an investigation report on Tesla’s battery-grade lithium compounds manufacturing facility near…
WALNUT COVE, N. C. —Tim and Deborah Mabe gazed off their back deck and into a deep cleft where Town Fork Creek flows through their land and on to the Dan River…
U. S. House Democrats proposed legislation on Wednesday to restore clean energy tax credits revoked by Republicans last year through the One Big Beautiful Bill…
When Cary Quintana learned about a new initiative to promote fair treatment and safe conditions for vineyard workers, the Northern California winemaker immedia…
One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of the Interior is in turmoil, hobbling many of the agencies overseeing the country’s public…
The Iran war’s disruption to the global energy market should be a wake-up call for countries that continue to rely on fossil fuels, said United Nations climate…
PATAGONIA,   Ariz. —The U. S. Forest Service on March 5 announced it plans to soon approve the nation’s first critical minerals mine, South32’s Hermosa pr…
Spanning seven U. S. states and one Canadian province, the Columbia River Basin was once the largest salmon-producing river system in the world. Yet, with four…
When Gary Dirks arrived in China in 1995, the country’s government was looking to source more of its energy at home. Dirks was the incoming country head for BP…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —High electricity costs have been the talk of the session in the Alabama Legislature, and the state seems poised to totally revamp its utility…
The International Energy Agency’s executive director has called hydropower a “forgotten giant, ” and has urged governments to do more to remember it. U. S. Pre…
It was a sweltering January afternoon in the Amazonian town of Puyo when Andrés Tapia realized his daughter’s public school fees were due. Like many Ecuadorian…
Regions that are often pummeled by severe storms— like the Midwestern United States under last weekend’s powerful thunderstorms and deadly tornadoes— could als…
The sluggish Colorado River negotiations have entered a new phase: Long and fiery letter writing. Politicians, water negotiators and environmental groups recen…
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas— The imminent depletion of water supplies in Corpus Christi threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exp…
Schuyler County in New York is home to a bucolic state park, an automobile race track and one day— if Judy McKinney Cherry has her way— a nuclear power plant.…
Lawmakers from Utah have commandeered an obscure law to unravel protections for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, potentially delivering on a Tr…
Yashas Raj and Jake Chapman are hunkered down in a basement laboratory at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering— tinkering with a handheld no…
Just over a year ago, the Trump administration gutted staff across the National Park Service, triggering a series of protests around the country, a signal of t…
Plans to build more than 50 data centers in Pennsylvania face opposition from a growing network of community groups, environmental activists and state lawmaker…
Atlanta has spent decades battling smog and air pollution. Now, state regulators have cleared the way for a major natural gas expansion at Georgia Power’s Plan…
Two weeks ago, when Texas sued a massive Dow petrochemical plant over water pollution, state environmental regulators were already considering a novel proposal…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Nearly a foot of snow has melted. The deep freeze that sent temperatures across the region plummeting to below zero has warmed to a balmy 55 d…
Southern right whales— once driven to near-extinction by industrial hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries— have long been regarded as a conservation success.…
Stepping off the Q train at Prospect Park Station in Brooklyn, I winced at the screech and grumble of the subway. Car horns echoed from streets nearby and the…
From Baltimore to Honolulu, cities have made their views clear: Oil companies whose pollution contributed to climate change should be financially responsible f…
As temperatures dropped below freezing in New York City last month, boilers in the basements of city buildings insulated New Yorkers from the cold. But they of…
In one of his final acts before his death in 2024, Māori King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero helped galvanize Pacific Indigenous leaders to sign a landmark dec…
Standing inside the New Jersey Statehouse last month, Claudia Mutzus wore a T-shirt from the Service Employees International Union and held a banner emblazoned…
As governments struggle to halt biodiversity loss and protect the world’s oceans using legal systems largely built by and for nation-states, Indigenous leaders…
Sooner than you think, your city may be down to its last gas station, or, in large cities, the last few gas stations. They likely will be owned or heavily subs…
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