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Years after a water crisis rocked Jackson, Mississippi, the court finds that residents have no right “to truthful information from officials.”
The country’s incoming president made water her “main concern” when she was mayor of Mexico City.
But even products certified as "compostable" are causing headaches.
The governor’s plan to use treated water from oil and gas drilling is in limbo while public safety questions swirl.
“Gardiner is a company town and Yellowstone is the mill. If somebody starts screwing with the mill, we have no choice but to be concerned.”
An innovative new nonprofit called WHEN Justice is turning targeted litigation funding into a powerful tool for justice.
Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it.
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.