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ProPublica - Environment

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

5 days ago

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

7 days ago

The Doublespeak of Energy Secretary Chris Wright

7 days ago

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

14 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 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.

12 days ago

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

25 days ago

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

After the Palisades Fire, What Can We Really Rebuild?

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

City Cast Las Vegas

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

How to Reduce Formaldehyde Exposure in Your Home

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Check the Formaldehyde Cancer Risk in Your Neighborhood

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

The Ghosts of John Tanton

5 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.

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Jennifer Smith Richards

5 months ago

Tow Center for Digital Journalism

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Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?

9 days ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

Washington State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

The Delusion of "Advanced" Plastic Recycling

9 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

2 months ago