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As Riverview LLP aggressively expands its mega-dairies across the Upper Midwest, advocacy groups and worried residents are mounting legal challenges and orchestrating local efforts to push back. The Minnesota-based dairy giant, the second-largest producer of milk and milk product

TOBYHANNA, Pa.—Rich Troscianecki spent a decade searching for a slice of paradise. After raising a family in a sprawling New Jersey suburb, he and his wife craved a more peaceful place with lots of woods and a water view. They finally found the perfect spot deep in the Pocono Mou

Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Judith Enck, the founder of advocacy group Beyond Plastics. After World War II, plastics grew from a cheap wartime alternative to a staple in the Americ

There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.

Virginia’s seven federally recognized tribes said they’re cautiously optimistic about their prospects of becoming full signatories to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement even after program leadership missed the July 1 deadline for presenting a roadmap on how to include the tri

This article previously appeared in Cambridge Day. From Boston’s Museum of Science to the Watertown Dam, the Charles River this spring was rife with river herring swirling in the water like scores of baby sharks. Near the dam, dozens of the aptly named herring gulls perched on ro

When Antonio Machado Allison assisted with earthquake response efforts in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas in 1967, he felt confident in the way the government mobilized its teams. When he arrived, Allison described immediately seeing a plethora of state agencies onsite organizing

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with UC Boulder senior research scientist Ted Scambos.  Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere marks the dead of winter in Antarctica, usually a time

The Department of Energy has canceled or stalled funding for thousands of projects that would improve the country’s stressed grid — and not just in blue states.

When wildfires began raging across France and Spain last month, the European Union sent aircraft and firefighters from nine other countries. The Pacific Northwest, where fires have forced tens of thousands to evacuate, has landed help from Australia and New Zealand. Wildland fire

Natural gas surged to the top in the first round of power projects accepted into PJM Interconnection’s reformed interconnection process, making up nearly half of the more than 200 gigawatts of capacity qualified for study. Battery storage and solar trail natural gas, according to

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—For the first time in more than 40 years, Alabama utility regulators this week convened formal hearings to potentially decrease profits for one of the state’s major monopoly utilities.  The Alabama Public Service Commission held the hearings on Thursday and Frida

As Riverview LLP aggressively expands its mega-dairies across the Upper Midwest, advocacy groups and worried residents are mounting legal challenges and orchestrating local efforts to push back. The Minnesota-based dairy giant, the second-largest producer of milk and milk product

President Donald Trump is seeking to reverse significant ocean protections by allowing commercial fishing in three Pacific marine national monuments President George W. Bush established in the early 2000s. The Bush administration specifically created these protected areas to safe

After an environmental group filed a complaint on behalf of two Montana residents, state regulators rescinded a crucial waiver.

In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five years later, President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act.  Since that 1970 law and its amendments were

New research suggests that swapping your internal combustion engine for an EV is almost always the greener choice.

Belle Glade is one of the poorest cities in Florida, a majority-Black farmworker community on the southern rim of Lake Okeechobee, where clean and reliable drinking water has never been a given. But when Belle Glade looked to the largest source of federal money for fixing drinkin

As new electricity generation skews toward solar and battery storage in Texas, Republican state senators are questioning whether it’s time to impose minimum standards for building gas plants and move away from free trade in the state’s electricity marketplace.   The Electric Reli

PHILADELPHIA—This summer has brought the full force of a changing climate, with wildfire smoke, extreme heat, flash flooding and severe storms continuing a trend of increasingly extreme weather affecting the city. But during negotiations over the city’s budget throughout the spri