Environment

The massive Pebble Mine project is back in play after Alaska’s governor met with President Donald Trump.

Behind Trump’s promises to dismantle climate regulations and drill more oil lies a $1 billion fundraising push led by billionaire Harold Hamm. This investigation reveals the deep ties between Trump, Big Oil, and their shared vision for America’s energy future.

As the mad globalization of the economy and the funneling of all wealth to the tiniest segment of the ultra-rich carries on apace, perhaps the rest of us, struggling just to make the monthly payments for shelter and food, are losing that primal urge so critical to species survival.

"We want to show with our protest today that this mine needs to be shut down permanently."

Indigenous peoples should be a source of inspiration for the global community.

How a decade of neglect and politics undermined the CDC’s fight against climate change

Exxon’s Baton Rouge refinery is adjacent to one of the company’s eight facilities named in a settlement reached with the EPA and the DOJ.

The researchers' hope that their map can be a tool for both other scientists and state and federal regulators to better understand and manage PFAS pollution in the U.S. 

Internal documents show the Trump administration’s EPA is abandoning decades of public health accounting in favor of business compliance costs.

“I hope it helps with identifying not just the most vulnerable wetlands today but the most vulnerable wetlands tomorrow.”