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In Nevada, Attorney General and Democratic candidate for governor Aaron Ford’s campaign has said Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, “botched negotiations” over the future of the Colorado River.  In neighboring Arizona, Rep. Andy Biggs, the Republican Party’s candidate for governor, has said Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has cost the state millions of gallons of water […]

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska—Lucy Martin’s family was among the last to be evacuated from Kwigillingok, a Yup’ik village a quarter mile from the Bering Sea that was devastated by Typhoon Halong in October 2025. A year later, Martin, the village’s tribal resilience coordinator, is still in Bethel, a regional hub about 70 miles to the northeast, and […]

If you’re an ordinary resident of Pennsylvania and you want to dispose of potentially toxic waste, the Department of Environmental Protection will direct you to specialized dropoff locations: recycling programs or local events where officials collect things like propane tanks and pharmaceuticals.  If you’re in the oil and gas business, your options may become much […]

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with  Plastics have been widely adopted in all sorts of products from food packaging to toys to medical devices, in part because they were believed to be chemically inert—meaning they don’t easily undergo chemical reactions when in […]

Congressional leaders and Maryland regulators continue to pressure the Trump administration for information about the ongoing jet fuel leak at Joint Base Andrews. Both want immediate action that will stop the contamination that continues to threaten Piscataway Creek and nearby communities more than seven months after the incident was reported.  The latest calls follow recent […]

Wyoming will partner with the Trump administration on an initiative to streamline and expedite permitting for large energy and other industrial projects such as data centers, representatives from both groups announced Monday. Gov. Mark Gordon joined Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council Executive Director Emily Domenech during a press conference Monday afternoon to sign a memorandum […]

When BaRupOn LLC, a California-based developer, bought land in East Texas for a 700-acre industrial campus in 2023, the company received a warm welcome from the state. The developer set out to build numerous data centers and rare-earth manufacturing facilities at the site, as well as its own power plants. At first, Gov. Greg Abbott’s […]

This story was originally published by Civil Beat. The Maui Department of the Prosecuting Attorney is expected to soon have an investigator working full-time on contractor fraud cases targeting survivors of the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire, county officials say. Mayor Richard Bissen asked Maui County Council Chair Alice Lee to introduce legislation to authorize the […]

A proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution on the ballot this November is aimed at cutting property taxes. But the amendment would also affect funding for local governments and the state agencies responsible for flood control and water supply and conservation across this vulnerable, low-lying peninsula. Amendment 3 would raise the homestead property tax exemption, […]

PHOENIX— Koral Casillas’ American Dream was simple: Leave her corporate job to start a local business serving her community.  Five years ago, she did just that. She’s now the co-owner of two local Phoenix businesses—Monsoon Market, a purveyor of local goods, and Strip Mall, a coffee and wine shop. But this summer, Casillas said, she […]

In what might have been his last hearing as chair of Pennsylvania’s House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection committee, long-time Democratic state Rep. Greg Vitali seemed to have little interest in soaking it all in.  During the October hearing, Vitali instead furrowed his brow as he watched a parade of witnesses discussing “roadspreading,” a practice […]

In less than two weeks, U.S. Senate leaders plan to take an initial vote on the divisive permitting reform bill aimed at easing regulatory barriers that can delay energy projects. As the date nears, some of the country’s leading environmental groups are ramping up their opposition, arguing that the measure would do more harm than […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Candidates for Alabama’s second-highest office took the stage Wednesday for what was the first major-party debate for a statewide office since 2010, the year Republicans took the reins of government from Democrats for the first time in the modern era.  In a debate hosted by WHNT, a Huntsville-based television station, state Rep. Phillip Ensler, […]

A decade ago, an electric vehicle with more than 300 miles of range would have cost you nearly $100,000. Today, 300 miles of range sits in the middle of the market and consumers can expect at least 200 miles in even the least expensive models, based on the latest 2027 model-year data on fueleconomy.gov. This […]

Tanja Konwinski thought the Constitution pipeline was dead. When her husband bought 82 acres in Schoharie County, New York, in 2023, she knew Williams Cos. held an easement on the property for the proposed natural gas pipeline. But the state had rejected the project’s water quality permit application in 2016 and courts upheld that decision. […]

In 2016, current Democratic candidate for Congress Leticia Gutierrez lived six miles from a refinery owned by the Brazilian oil company Petrobras in Pasadena, part of the greater Houston area. The plant accrued thousands of dollars in fines from the Texas Commission on Environment Quality for violations including the release of dangerous air pollutants like […]

Reeling rods, pulling pots and hauling nets this summer, fishermen from Greece to the U.K. discovered unexpected visitors popping their heads above the surface. In the Aegean, it was silver-cheeked toadfish—an invasive pufferfish with powerful, prominent teeth. In the English Channel, it was the unprecedented arrival of uncommon common octopuses. And in the Adriatic, it […]

As the most heavily forested state in the country, about 94 percent of Maine’s forests are privately owned, so focusing on their carbon benefits has both immediate ecological and economic effects.  By creating specific programs and collaborations, the state has been strategic in using its resources to reach its climate goals and has made thoughtful […]

Political action committees funded by technology companies, the state’s major utilities and other corporate interests have spent nearly twice as much to pass a ballot measure that would greenlight major development projects with minimal environmental or public review as public interest and labor groups have spent opposing it. Developers and other corporate interests aim to […]

Three of four wells across the Grand Canyon region that have average arsenic levels above the Environmental Protection Agency’s standard for safe drinking water are at the site of a controversial uranium mine, a new analysis of groundwater sampling shows. The analysis from the Grand Canyon Trust, a nonprofit advocating for protection of the canyon […]