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The Justice Department is suing a major petrochemical company, arguing that its chemical plant in Reserve, Louisiana, poses an unacceptable risk to the health and welfare of the area’s majority-Black population.
Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.
In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
An initiative in Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona enlists clinicians to ensure resources go to the right places during heat waves.
A data-driven disaster tool shows “bias” against rural communities.
After the fire destroyed his town in 2021, a state rep took on insurance companies, mortgage lenders, and landlords — and beat them all.
A new report finds Indigenous land rights are key to preserving biodiversity.
A new study found that climate change is knocking it out of the park — no, really.
The city estimates that its wildly popular subsidies are helping to eliminate 170,000 vehicle miles traveled per week.
