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ProPublica - Environment

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

8 days ago

The Ghosts of John Tanton

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Jennifer Smith Richards

1 month ago

Tow Center for Digital Journalism

1 month ago

EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron's Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause Cancer

1 month ago

ExxonMobil Accused of "Deceptively" Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis

1 month ago

Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry's Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content

2 months ago

Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?

1 month ago

At Indigenous Sacred Sites, Seeing Things I'm Not Supposed to See

1 month ago

The Department of Energy Promised This Tribal Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. It's Nearly Impossible to Access.

2 months ago

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.

2 months ago

Oregon's Largest Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green. It Sells as Much Fossil Fuel as Before.

2 months ago

These Household Brands Want to Redefine What Counts as "Recyclable"

1 month ago

Nike Shareholders Want to Force Actions on Environmental and Worker Protections. They Face Long Odds.

2 months ago

When Is "Recyclable" Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.

3 months ago

As Millions of Acres Burn, Firefighters Say the U.S. Forest Service Has Left Them With Critical Shortages

3 months ago

After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting

3 months ago

Washington State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites

3 months ago

How a Green Tech Startup With No Climate Experience Secured Millions of Dollars in Government Contracts

3 months ago

Oklahoma's Oil Industry Touts a Voluntary Fund to Clean Up Oil Wells. Major Drillers Want Their Contributions Refunded.

3 months ago

Data Centers Demand a Massive Amount of Energy. Here's How Some States Are Tackling the Industry's Impact.

3 months ago

Washington Is Giving Tax Breaks to Data Centers That Threaten the State's Green Energy Push

3 months ago

California Isn't Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law on Its Largest Oil Company

3 months ago

Nike Pledged to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed the Staff Charged With Making That Happen.

2 months ago

The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here's What It Left Out.

4 months ago

How America's "Most Powerful Lobby" Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State

4 months ago

The Delusion of "Advanced" Plastic Recycling

5 months ago

A Bottled Water Company in Michigan Is Still Extracting Millions of Gallons of Water for Free

3 months ago

Nine Takeaways From Our Investigation Into 3M's Forever Chemicals

5 months ago

How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

4 months ago

Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN's "Plastic Free" Conference

6 months ago

Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.

6 months ago

Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger

6 months ago

EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables

6 months ago

10 Times as Much of This Toxic Pesticide Could End Up on Your Tomatoes and Celery Under a New EPA Proposal

6 months ago

Oil Companies Must Set Aside More Money to Plug Wells, a New Rule Says. But It Won't Be Enough.

6 months ago

The Big Burnout: Life on the Front Lines of America's Wildfires

7 months ago

EPA Finalizes New Standards for Cancer-Causing Chemicals

7 months ago

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn't Worked.

7 months ago

The Flooding Will Come "No Matter What"

7 months ago

Chevron Will Pay Record Fines for Oil Spills in California

7 months ago

An Oregon Bill to Cut Millions in Timber Taxes Is Dead, Despite Backing by the Industry, the Governor and a Top Lawmaker

8 months ago

"It Feels Impossible to Stay": The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them

8 months ago

New EPA Rule to Slash Cancer-Causing Emissions From Sterilization Facilities

8 months ago

Listen to the "Timber Wars Season 2: Salmon Wars" Podcast

8 months ago

The Oregon Timber Industry Won Huge Tax Cuts in the 1990s. Now It May Get Another Break Thanks to a Top Lawmaker.

9 months ago

Washington State Is Leaving Tribal Cultural Resources at the Mercy of Solar Developers

10 months ago

In a Major Shift, Northwest Tribes — not U.S. Officials — Will Control Salmon Recovery Funds

10 months ago

West Virginians Could Get Stuck Cleaning Up the Coal Industry's Messes

11 months ago

The Future of the Colorado River Hinges on One Young Negotiator

1 year ago

9 Times the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Miscalculated Badly at the Expense of Taxpayers, Wildlife

1 year ago

The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States

1 year ago

The Historic Claims That Put a Few California Farming Families First in Line for Colorado River Water

1 year ago

The EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Contaminants in Drinking Water but Hasn't Set Safety Limits on Them

1 year ago