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 Tanton1 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 Richards1 month ago
Tow Center for Digital Journalism1 month ago
EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron's Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause Cancer1 month ago
ExxonMobil Accused of "Deceptively" Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis1 month ago
Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry's Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content2 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 See1 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 Shortages3 months ago
After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting3 months ago
Washington State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites3 months ago
How a Green Tech Startup With No Climate Experience Secured Millions of Dollars in Government Contracts3 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 Push3 months ago
California Isn't Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law on Its Largest Oil Company3 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 State4 months ago
The Delusion of "Advanced" Plastic Recycling5 months ago
A Bottled Water Company in Michigan Is Still Extracting Millions of Gallons of Water for Free3 months ago
Nine Takeaways From Our Investigation Into 3M's Forever Chemicals5 months ago
How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe4 months ago
Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN's "Plastic Free" Conference6 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 Linger6 months ago
EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables6 months ago
10 Times as Much of This Toxic Pesticide Could End Up on Your Tomatoes and Celery Under a New EPA Proposal6 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 Wildfires7 months ago
EPA Finalizes New Standards for Cancer-Causing Chemicals7 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 California7 months ago
An Oregon Bill to Cut Millions in Timber Taxes Is Dead, Despite Backing by the Industry, the Governor and a Top Lawmaker8 months ago
"It Feels Impossible to Stay": The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them8 months ago
New EPA Rule to Slash Cancer-Causing Emissions From Sterilization Facilities8 months ago
Listen to the "Timber Wars Season 2: Salmon Wars" Podcast8 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 Developers10 months ago
In a Major Shift, Northwest Tribes — not U.S. Officials — Will Control Salmon Recovery Funds10 months ago
West Virginians Could Get Stuck Cleaning Up the Coal Industry's Messes11 months ago
The Future of the Colorado River Hinges on One Young Negotiator1 year ago
9 Times the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Miscalculated Badly at the Expense of Taxpayers, Wildlife1 year ago
The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States1 year ago
The Historic Claims That Put a Few California Farming Families First in Line for Colorado River Water1 year ago
The EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Contaminants in Drinking Water but Hasn't Set Safety Limits on Them1 year ago