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The Tension Between Humans and Nature

373 stories published since 2009

Undercooked: An Expensive Push to Save Lives and Protect the Planet Falls Short

by Sara Morrison,

How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Suppressed Study: The EPA Underestimated Dangers of Widespread Chemicals

by Abrahm Lustgarten, Lisa Song and Talia Buford,

West Virginia Paid for a CEO to Go on a Trade Delegation to China. Turns Out, He Was Promoting His Company’s Interests, Too.

by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail,

Congress Aims to Force Pentagon Reform on Open Burning of Munitions

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Two Leading Bidders for Lucrative Los Alamos Lab Contract Have Checkered Safety Records

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican,

Get an Inside Look at the Department of Defense’s Struggle to Fix Pollution at More Than 39,000 Sites

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Climate Change and Vulnerable Communities — Let’s Talk About This Hot Mess.

by Talia Buford,

The Coal Industry Extracted a Steep Price From West Virginia. Now Natural Gas Is Leading the State Down the Same Path.

by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail,

Canary in the Coal Pond

by Talia Buford,

New Model Shows Towns on the Wrong Side of an Illinois Levee District Are Treading Water

by Lisa Song and Al Shaw, ProPublica, Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Alex Heeb, The Telegraph of Alton, Illinois,

How Overbuilt Levees Along the Upper Mississippi River Push Floods Onto Others

by Al Shaw and Lisa Song,

Inside a Secretive Lobbying Effort to Deregulate Federal Levees

by Lisa Song, ProPublica, Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Alex Heeb, The Telegraph of Alton, Illinois,

The Six Stages of Trump’s Resistance

by Peter Elkind,

Canadian Research Adds to Worry Over an Environmental Threat the Pentagon Has Downplayed for Decades

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Long Story Short

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

War at Home

by Ranjani Chakraborty and Abrahm Lustgarten,

Brain Drain At the EPA

by Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, and Marina Affo and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica,

The Billion-Dollar Loophole

by Peter Elkind,

What It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPA

by Talia Buford,

The Bomb That Went Off Twice

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Buyouts Won’t Be the Answer for Many Frequent Flooding Victims

by Lisa Song and Al Shaw, ProPublica, and Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal,

Book Review: The Ordeal of Appalachia

by Alec MacGillis,

FEMA Had a Plan for Responding to a Hurricane in Puerto Rico — But It Doesn’t Want You to See It

by Justin Elliott and Decca Muldowney,

Everyone Knew Houston’s Reservoirs Would Flood — Except for the People Who Bought Homes Inside Them

by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal, Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, and Al Shaw, ProPublica,

How Military Outsourcing Turned Toxic

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Independent Monitors Found Benzene Levels After Harvey Six Times Higher Than Guidelines

by Lisa Song and Al Shaw, ProPublica, and Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune,

Rethinking the ‘Infrastructure’ Discussion Amid a Blitz of Hurricanes

by Andrew Revkin,

How the Truth Can Get Damaged in a Hurricane, Too

by Andrew Revkin,

Development and Disasters — A Deadly Combination Well Beyond Houston

by Andrew Revkin,

Houston’s Dams Won’t Fail. But Many Homes Will Have to Be Flooded to Save Them

by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal, and Al Shaw and Lisa Song, ProPublica,

Trump Has Broad Power to Block Climate Change Report

by Andrew Revkin,

Dangerous Pollutants in Military’s Open Burns Greater Than Thought, Tests Indicate

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Has the Moment for Environmental Justice Been Lost?

by Talia Buford,

Kaboom Town

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

One Year, One Facility, 1.7 Million Pounds of Hazardous Waste Burned in Open Air

by Lylla Younes,

In Colfax, Echoes of Another Conflict

by Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo,

Open Burns, Ill Winds

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Toxic Fires

by Hilary Fung,

In Flint Water Crisis, Could Involuntary Manslaughter Charges Actually Lead to Prison Time?

by Talia Buford,

There Are Lots of Climate Uncertainties. Let’s Acknowledge and Plan for Them With Honesty.

by Andrew Revkin,

As One of Its Chief Sources of Water Dries Up, California Eases Restrictions on Use Nonetheless

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Drought be Dammed

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

‘We’re Sitting Ducks’

ProPublica,

Hell and High Water (Full Text)

by Neena Satija for The Texas Tribune and Reveal, Kiah Collier for The Texas Tribune, and Al Shaw and Jeff Larson, ProPublica,

Liquid Assets

Abrahm Lustgarten,

How Much Water Does the West Really Have?

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Less Than Zero

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Picturing the Drought

by Michael Friberg, special to ProPublica,

End of the Miracle Machines: Inside the Power Plant Fueling America's Drought

by Abrahm Lustgarten,