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Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.
The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought.
In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood pellet mills say they’re getting sick.
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
Expect heated debates over single words — and even commas — at COP28.
Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
Both for the people and, potentially, for the planet
The link between environmental disasters and societal collapse, explained.