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A Floodlight analysis in nine of the 10 states that elect public utility commissioners found that more than a third of their contributions of $250 and up are from fossil fuel and electric utility interests — more than $13.5 million in all.
A 'hundred-year flood' would disproportionately affect the county's Black communities.
With little fanfare, the administration is using infrastructure funding to revive dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs in rural areas across the U.S. West.
Documents detail how the EPA coordinated with the very companies they’re supposed to regulate by attacking researchers and smearing peer-reviewed science.
"The people there are tired of being studied. We need to take action.”
The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought.
On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.
To lure chipmakers, the state's lawmakers voted to roll back 50-year-old restrictions on urban growth.
These powerlifters and strongmen are lifting heavier weights with a diet that's lighter on the planet.
