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ProPublica - Environment

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

5 months ago

Black Snow: -- Big Sugar's Burning Problem

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Broken Promises: -- Salmon Disappear From the Pacific Northwest

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Disaster After Disaster: -- Growing Storms, Faltering Aid

5 months ago

Fracking: -- Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat

5 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Losing Ground: -- Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Nuclear Safety: -- After Fukushima

5 months ago

Paradise Lost: -- Hawaii's Disappearing Beaches

5 months ago

Polluter's Paradise: -- Environmental Impact in Louisiana

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

30 days ago

Selling a Mirage: -- The Deception Behind Plastic Recycling

5 months ago

Sunken Costs: -- Coal Ash in Georgia

5 months ago

The Cutting: -- Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

1 month ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

The Biggest Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Grazing on Public Lands

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here's What Changed This Year.

3 months ago

La EPA estaba considerando una limpieza masiva de plomo en Omaha. Pero luego Trump cambió las directrices.

3 months ago

¿Vive en el área de Omaha o Council Bluffs? Regístrese para una prueba gratuita de la detección de plomo.

8 days ago

Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State's Energy Supply

3 months ago

The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance.

3 months ago

Do You Live in the Omaha and Council Bluffs Area? Sign Up for Free Lead Testing of Your Soil.

12 days ago

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale

4 months ago

Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.

4 months ago

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune

4 months ago

The Texas Tribune

4 months ago

Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and "Cultural Power" Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight

4 months ago

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.

4 months ago

A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact

4 months ago

New York Moves Forward With a Brooklyn Flood Protection Plan That Falls Short of Other City Projects

4 months ago

The New York Amsterdam News

4 months ago

Trump's Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.

4 months ago

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

5 months ago

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.

5 months ago

Help Us Report on the Impact of Oil Field Waste in Oklahoma

5 months ago

House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on PFNA, a Toxic Forever Chemical

5 months ago

Elon Musk's Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

19 days ago

City Cast Las Vegas

9 months ago

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn't Released It.

5 months ago

Oregon Fast-Tracks Renewable Energy Projects as Trump Bill Ends Tax Incentives

5 months ago

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

6 months ago

This Family Will Return Home After Helene. Their Onerous Journey to Rebuild Shows Why Many Others Won't.

6 months ago

Are You Still Waiting for Assistance After Hurricane Helene? We Want to Hear From You.

3 months ago

Elon Musk Has Criticized Environmental Regulations. His Companies Have Been Accused of Sidestepping Them.

6 months ago

Elon Musk Pushed Back on Our Reporting on His Houston Tunnels Plan. Experts Say His Comments Are Misleading.

6 months ago

Trump Says America's Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries'. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

7 months ago

A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding

7 months ago

Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce's Push for Elon Musk's xAI Data Center

7 months ago

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

7 months ago

Top Democrat on Oversight Committee Demands Trump Administration Account for Wildland Firefighter Vacancies

7 months ago

How One Oregon Activist Is Using a Decades-Old Liberal Policy to Stall Green Energy Projects in Rural Areas

7 months ago

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State's Wildfire Risk Map

8 months ago

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth's Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater

8 months ago

The Drying Planet

3 months ago

"Under the Microscope": Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show

8 months ago

The Forest Service Claims It's Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs.

8 months ago

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches

8 months ago