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Two Chicago-area institutions teamed up to develop a solid-state battery that packs a huge energy punch—one that could eventually even power airplanes.
Young people traumatized by Hurricane Maria were more likely to report substance use.
A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the U.S. power grid — and some of them are on your ballots.
The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town."
A federal court has revoked a key permit for Sempra Energy, whose LNG facility could worsen pollution in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
Alachua County is preparing for a more dangerous future, even if the state government won't say "climate."
That's at least 10 times what's currently available.
Despite health risks, Puerto Rico keeps tax incentives in place for cancer-causing chemical polluters.
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.