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Four cars and a truck are half submerged in water on a highway with green exit signs in the background

Climate change is messing with city sewers — and the solutions are even messier

As heavy rains overwhelm aging pipes, Boston and NYC are choosing very different paths forward.

Angelica Ang Cities August 21, 2024

An aerial shot of an outdoor industrial with green and yellow construction equipment next to a vat containing brown material

The EPA is cracking down on PFAS — but not in fertilizer

Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals.

Zoya Teirstein Agriculture April 19, 2024

A dry irrigation canal runs between almond orchards in Chowchilla, California. The state's landmark groundwater law will force farmers to fallow tens of thousands of acres.

In a first, California cracks down on farms guzzling groundwater

Regulators just imposed unprecedented fees on water usage in the state's agricultural heartland.

Jake Bittle Agriculture April 17, 2024

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The race for clean energy is local

A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the U.S. power grid — and some of them are on your ballots.

Emily Jones & Gautama Mehta Elections November 3, 2024

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a speech during the General Plenary of Leaders in the framework of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 6, 2025.

10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal

This year's U.N. climate negotiations crashed out on a hard truth: It’s all about the money.

Zoya Teirstein COP30 November 23, 2025

Several people walk through a lush green valley surrounded by trees

The fate of thousands of US dams hangs in the balance, leaving rural communities with hard choices

Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Politics October 14, 2024

Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens a civil rights probe in Alabama

Advocates allege the state hindered Black residents from receiving critical federal funds.

Lylla Younes Accountability October 10, 2023

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In Michigan: Climate change, bird flu, and dairy cows — and why ‘none of us saw this coming’

And why we should have.

Izzy Ross Health June 13, 2024

A climate pledge verifier said it would allow more carbon offsets. Its staff revolted.

In a resignation letter, an adviser called carbon credits "scientifically, socially, and from a climate perspective a hoax."

Joseph Winters Accountability April 12, 2024

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