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Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

3 months ago

Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change

3 months ago

Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City's Drinking Water

23 hours ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

11 months ago

Black Snow: -- Big Sugar's Burning Problem

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Broken Promises: -- Salmon Disappear From the Pacific Northwest

11 months ago

Buried Truth: -- Digging Into Omaha's Lead Contamination

4 months ago

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

11 months ago

Carbon Captured: -- How the Fossil Fuel Industry Turned a Plan to Solve Climate Change Into a Plan to Save Itself

3 months ago

Disaster After Disaster: -- Growing Storms, Faltering Aid

11 months ago

Fracking: -- Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat

11 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Losing Ground: -- Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Nuclear Safety: -- After Fukushima

11 months ago

Paradise Lost: -- Hawaii's Disappearing Beaches

11 months ago

Polluter's Paradise: -- Environmental Impact in Louisiana

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

6 months ago

Selling a Mirage: -- The Deception Behind Plastic Recycling

11 months ago

Sunken Costs: -- Coal Ash in Georgia

11 months ago

The Cutting: -- Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Two Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm's Way

7 days ago

EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells

24 days ago

How the Planet-Altering Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

24 days ago

Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land.

1 month ago

They Rebuilt After Texas' Devastating Floods. Then Their Home Flooded Again.

1 month ago

Más del 50% de los hogares del este de Omaha tiene niveles inseguros de plomo. No significa que la EPA los limpiará.

1 month ago

More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn't Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.

1 month ago

La contaminación por plomo sigue siendo un problema en Omaha. ¿Por qué la ciudad limpia unos patios y otros no?

2 months ago

Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?

2 months ago

Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has Power Over Is Falling Apart.

2 months ago

La EPA casi nunca repite las pruebas en el mayor sitio de Superfund residencial con plomo del país, pero nosotros sí

2 months ago

The EPA Doesn't Typically Retest Homes in the Country's Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.

2 months ago

La EPA anuncia su limpieza de Omaha como un éxito, pero encontramos muchos patios que tienen niveles tóxicos de plomo

2 months ago

The EPA Spent Millions Cleaning Up a Massive Superfund Site. Our Tests Found Toxic Levels of Lead in Many Yards.

1 month ago

Solar Developer Cancels Washington State Project on Sacred Indigenous Land

2 months ago

The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement

2 months ago

Left in the Dust: How a Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant Took Over a Detroit Community

2 months ago

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk

3 months ago

Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.

3 months ago

An Oregon Law Lets One Wealthy Region Turn the Desert Green. When Drought Hits, Farmers Pay the Price.

3 months ago

Oregon Leaders Are Trying to Save the Deschutes River. Here's Why That's So Hard.

3 months ago

I Cold-Called President Trump. Here's What He Told Me About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor.

3 months ago

Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.

3 months ago

Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator's Coal Companies

3 months ago

Toxic Ground: How Oil Field Pollution Is Threatening Oklahoma

4 months ago

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can't Help.

4 months ago

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation's Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

4 months ago

Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods

4 months ago

Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges "Healthy Skepticism" of Climate Science

5 months ago

"A Huge Setback": New EPA Directive Could Weaken Hundreds of Chemical Regulations

5 months ago

Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash

5 months ago

What You Should Know About Lead Contamination in Omaha, Nebraska

5 months ago

Lo que debe saber sobre la contaminación por plomo en Omaha, Nebraska

5 months ago

Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren't Tested for Lead.

5 months ago

Omaha tiene un sitio Superfund masivo. A la mayoría de los niños que vive allí no se les hacen pruebas de plomo.

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago