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The Tension Between Humans and Nature

386 stories published since 2009

Hurricane Florence’s Surge Is Expected to Hit Homes That Already Cost the Government Millions

by Lisa Song and Al Shaw,

Potential Insurance Bill From Hurricane Florence Could Take Toll on Wallets Far From North Carolina’s Coast

by Abrahm Lustgarten and Talia Buford,

There Was a Plan to Save This City From Flooding. But When the Rains Came, So Did Hesitance.

by Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting,

How the Army Corps’ Hesitation Nearly Destroyed a City

by Al Shaw and Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting,

New Mexico Senators Speak Out Over Order They Say Would Hamper Nuclear Safety Board

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican,

Natural Gas Industry Again Beats a Tiny West Virginia County That Wanted to Control Its Destiny

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

Nuclear Safety Board Slams Energy Department Plan to Weaken Oversight

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican,

How One West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Gave Natural Gas a Big Victory and Shortchanged Residents

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

Defense Inspector General to Investigate Military’s Toxic Open Burning

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

What Happens When a Pipeline Runs Afoul of Government Rules? Authorities Change the Rules.

by Kate Mishkin and Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail, and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica,

How “Levee Wars” Are Making Floods Worse

by Ranjani Chakraborty, Vox, and Katie Campbell, ProPublica,

Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides?

Lisa Song, ProPublica, Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Al Shaw, ProPublica,

To See How Levees Increase Flooding, We Built Our Own

by Al Shaw, Lisa Song, Katie Campbell and Ranjani Chakraborty,

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,

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,

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,

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,

In Colfax, Echoes of Another Conflict

by Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo,

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

by Lylla Younes,