The NRC is proposing to eliminate the ALARA principle — the decades-old requirement that nuclear plants keep radiation exposure as low as reasonably achievable. The nuclear industry has lobbied for this for years. The people who will absorb the residual risk live in fence-line communities with no lo
The ocean has absorbed 90% of the excess heat humanity has generated since industrialization. In 2025, marine heatwave days tripled compared to the early 1990s. The buffer that bought us time is failing — and the communities paying the price are the ones least responsible for creating the crisis.
Temperatures at Antarctica's Trinity Peninsula hit 20°C above normal in the middle of winter, and a sea-ice mass the size of France has disappeared. Scientists say the loss is likely permanent — and the implications reach far beyond the poles.
Beyond Plastics attached GPS trackers to Starbucks cups labeled 'widely recyclable' and dropped them in in-store bins. Not one reached a recycling facility. The label was issued by an industry-funded group — and Starbucks called it a 'big milestone.'
The EPA's proposed rollback of Biden-era PFAS drinking water limits doesn't dispute the science linking forever chemicals to cancer. It simply removes the legal requirement to act on that science — and the industry that spent decades causing the contamination spent years lobbying for exactly this ou
A decade after Standing Rock, nine Sioux Nation groups have halted a graphite drilling project near a recognized ceremonial site using proactive litigation — a legal strategy that pipeline opponents in the same state are now studying closely.
From Texas Republicans to California teachers, communities across the U.S. are organizing against an unregulated AI datacenter boom — and the bipartisan coalition forming around local water, power, and autonomy is one the industry wasn't built to handle.
Environmental racism describes how pollution and toxic waste are systematically concentrated in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities — a pattern created by policy, not accident.
Two years after a fatal mine explosion, Alabama's coal safety commission is now chaired by a coal executive. Residents call it regulatory capture with a body count.
U.S. military escalation in Iran has severed LNG supply chains across Asia, forcing countries to reactivate coal plants and abandon climate commitments — an environmental catastrophe driven by American foreign policy.