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.
Polling shows two-thirds of Americans support climate action — a number that hasn't moved even as the White House dismantles climate policy. The collapse in press coverage isn't a reflection of public opinion. It's a decision, and it has beneficiaries.
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.
RFK Jr. is demanding that a scientific journal explain why it retracted a vaccine study he used to justify federal policy changes. The study was pulled for methodological failures. That sequence — policy first, retracted evidence second, pressure on the journal third — is the story.
The world's largest banks increased fossil fuel financing by 8 percent last year, committing $906 billion to oil, gas, and coal projects — even as they dismantled the voluntary climate commitments they had made in public. A new report documents not a failure of implementation, but a failure of the e
New York's legislature just passed the first state-level moratorium on hyperscale datacenter construction. Governor Hochul will decide if it becomes law — and whether democratic governments still have the power to say no to Big Tech's energy demands.
The administration is using emergency wartime authority to send $700 million to coal plants already on the industry's closure lists. The law was never designed for this — and that's precisely why it was chosen.
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
In Houston's most polluted and most heavily immigrant neighborhoods, ICE raids, chemical spills, catastrophic floods, and an inaccessible healthcare system have converged into a single, compounding crisis. For hundreds of thousands of residents, survival mode has become the permanent condition — by
The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage Who would you rate as the world’s most unlikeable tech tycoon? Elon Musk is obviously a major contender. The digital warlord Palmer Luckey is also up there. While there’s a lot of competit
Qualified immunity is a Supreme Court-created doctrine that shields police officers from civil lawsuits even when they violate constitutional rights — unless the victim can find a prior case with nearly identical facts.
Since ChatGPT's release, "excellent" grades in AI-compatible courses have risen 30% at one selective university. The deeper problem is that higher education built a credentialing system it can no longer defend.
Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay active player, has died at 47. Twelve years after his historic coming out, not one active male player in the four major North American professional leagues has followed — and the institutions that celebrated him have done little to change the conditions that
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.