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Corporate climate targets are a mess. Could tracking ‘spheres of influence’...
In order to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, scientists agree that the world needs to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury. How to get there is a more contentious question....
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Why the EPA is relying on unproven technology to stop cancer-causing emissions
In the late 1980s, the aptly named Package Products Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, was facing a toxic problem. The consumer packaging company printed eye-catching candy wrappers, soft-drink...
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Why Puerto Rico remains a tax haven for polluters
Puerto Rico has more medical sterilization facilities per capita than anywhere else in the U.S. and its territories. These plants, where hospital equipment is fumigated before being introduced to the...
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An invisible, toxic chemical has been poisoning residents in Puerto Rico for...
Henry Morales woke up in the emergency room in Salinas, Puerto Rico, not knowing where he was. A doctor appeared beside him and gestured toward a dark-haired woman with a worried expression. “Do you...
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Mississippi officials saw the Jackson water crisis coming — and did nothing
In the summer of 2015, officials in Jackson, Mississippi sent the state a series of water samples taken at different locations throughout the city’s public water system. Residents had complained for...
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They settled in Houston after Katrina — and then faced a political storm
By the time Mtangulizi Sanyika got to Houston in September 2005, he and his wife were tired of moving. Sanyika, a lifelong resident of New Orleans and a professor at a historically Black college in...
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How Big Oil’s big money influences climate research
For more than a decade, students have been begging their universities to stop investing in oil and gas companies. In 2019, protesters stormed the field of a Harvard-Yale football game at halftime,...
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Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion. AI is making things...
In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer...
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How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and...
On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge...
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California sues Exxon Mobil over ‘sham’ of plastics recycling
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental nonprofits announced two distinct but related lawsuits against Exxon Mobil on Monday — not over the oil giant’s contribution to...
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Amazon’s inflatable plastic pillows are officially a thing of the past
After years of pressure from environmental advocates, the global retail giant Amazon announced last week that it has eliminated plastic air pillows from its global network of “fulfillment centers,” as...
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Experts say a proposed revamp to the recycling symbol is still deceptive —...
Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty...
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Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color, EPA data...
In March, officials in Postville shut down its water treatment facility for two days as city employees worked to prevent polluted water from a meatpacking plant from entering the water supply. Agri...
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Utility regulators take millions from industries they oversee. What could go...
It was 2:30 in the morning on November 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house....
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LA County sues Pepsi and Coke over plastic pollution and false advertising
Los Angeles County announced last week that it’s suing PepsiCo and Coca-Cola over plastic pollution, arguing that the soda giants’ plastic bottles have harmed public health and the environment and...
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‘Net-zero’ banks raised $1 trillion for fossil fuel giants
Less than a hundred miles from where world leaders are discussing how to meet their climate pledges, BP is drilling for gas. The Shafag-Asiman project, a sprawling gas field off the Azerbaijani coast,...
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North Carolina town sues Duke Energy for climate ‘deception’
A small town in North Carolina has taken a bold step, filing the first climate “deception” lawsuit against an electric utility in the United States. In a civil lawsuit, the Town Council of Carrboro...
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After 2 years, Coca-Cola’s promise to scale up reusable packaging is dead
Despite growing public scrutiny and legal challenges over its use of plastic, Coca-Cola appears to be moving backward on packaging sustainability. Earlier this decade, the soda giant publicly pledged...
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from...
Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan Bautista, California, three years ago. Escaping city...
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Indigenous people defending their land face a disproportionate share of...
In the first-ever global study of its kind, researchers concluded that more attention needs to be paid to physical attacks and threats against land defenders, since those incidents often are the...
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