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Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it.
Years after a water crisis rocked Jackson, Mississippi, the court finds that residents have no right “to truthful information from officials.”
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
Tens of thousands of Omahans have lead in their yards at levels that experts say is dangerous, especially for kids. Growing momentum to do more cleanup in what’s already the nation’s largest residential lead Superfund site now may stall.
If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America's farms?
Almost none of the storm's devastation will be paid out by insurance.
An innovative new nonprofit called WHEN Justice is turning targeted litigation funding into a powerful tool for justice.
Though marketed as clean energy, industrial pellet plants are driving deforestation, worsening floods, and polluting rural counties.
Senators saved a network of ocean sensors from "supreme stupidity." But other cutting-edge efforts are running out of funding, too.
