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Public lands, private profits: Inside the Trump plan to offload federal land

Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating access for everyone else.

Lois Parshley Accountability April 15, 2025

A sign that reads Please help God clean up Flint tacked to the side of a building with bars on the windows.

A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues

The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town."

Adam Mahoney, Capital B Accountability April 28, 2024

The EPA is aiming to get rid of lead pipes in 10 years. But not in Chicago.

The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.

Siri Chilukuri Cities December 1, 2023

Climate change is destroying American homes. Who should have to move?

It’s unfair to force people out of their homes. We have to do it anyway.

Jake Bittle Migration October 2, 2024

UN warns the world is ‘not on track’ to meet global climate targets

"Carbon emissions? Still climbing. Rich countries' finance commitments? Delinquent."

Akielly Hu International September 8, 2023

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Inside Utah’s PR campaign to seize public lands

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft, and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.

Jimmy Tobias, High Country News Politics June 29, 2025

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How Washington raised $300 million for climate action from polluters

The state's first "cap-and-invest" auction nearly doubled the price of carbon recently sold in California.

Kate Yoder Economics March 9, 2023

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The EPA wanted to clean up steel mills. Then a group of Rust Belt senators got involved.

Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.

Lylla Younes Regulation April 2, 2024

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‘We lost’: How COP29 ended with a deal that made the whole world unhappy

Under pressure to step up global climate aid, the world’s richest countries secured nothing less than a diplomatic coup in Baku.

Jake Bittle International November 24, 2024

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