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Can a pipeline company defy a governor’s orders? Gretchen Whitmer is about to find out.

The ongoing battle between North America's largest mover of oil, Enbridge Energy, and the state of Michigan.

Biden wants $10 billion for a climate army. It’s not enough.

The Civilian Climate Corps would put people to work preparing the nation for hotter heat waves and fiercer storms. They'll need a lot more money to succeed.

Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.

The untold history of how people survived the past 2,000 years.

Report: These stores offer bargain prices — and toxic products

U.S. retailers have a long way to go to phase out hazardous chemicals from their products and packaging.

Even the Great Lakes’ deepest waters are now warming

These changes will have significant impacts on the ecosystem, culture, and economy of the region.

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells

How we calculated the size of the Southwest’s abandoned oil well problem

Using machine learning, we found that states are grossly undercounting orphan wells.

‘No teeth and no funding’: How regulators failed to police the oil industry

Thirty years of data show Texas and New Mexico officials struggled to identify and fine violators.

One researcher’s quest to quantify the environmental cost of abandoned oil wells

Unplugged wells could be quietly leaking millions of pounds of methane in West Texas.

Fighting pipelines to the last mile

In British Columbia, Native communities, activists, and local government are split over new pipelines and their environmental risks.