This Town Is Sick of Drinking Polluted Water

In one of Alabama’s poorest and most segregated regions, activists are demanding their right to clean water.

Michelle Chen

If You Want to Market a Dangerous Pesticide Without Regulation, Go to the European Union

The EU continues to extend glyphosate’s license, even after the World Health Organization concluded it was “probably a carcinogen.”

Michelle Chen

There Are 15,000 Nuclear Weapons Still Posing an Intolerable Threat to Humanity

These mayors are trying to change that.

Mayor Frank Cownie

Growing Up With Climate Change

Chloe Maxmin

30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy?

Or, how Ukraine learned to stop worrying and love its nuclear power plants.

Dusty Christensen

A High-Pressure Pipeline Next to a Nuclear Power Plant… What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The construction of a gas pipeline within 1500 feet of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors could spell disaster for New York.

Alison Rose Levy and Ellen Cantarow

Flint Isn’t the Only Place With Racism in the Water

Environmental racism is an issue of political power: Polluters and waste sites are placed where politicians expect little or no political backlash.  

Tracey Ross and Danyelle Solomon

How the EPA Has Failed to Challenge Environmental Racism in Flint—and Beyond

Since the early 1990s, the agency has received over 300 discrimination complaints. It’s never once issued a formal finding of a violation.

Zoë Carpenter

Once Again, California Leads the Way

Governor Jerry Brown leads in tackling catastrophic climate change.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology

And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.

Wen Stephenson