Your local park is bringing in the green (and by that, we mean money)
In an increasingly divided nation, Americans agree on at least two things. For one, politicians across the politic...
A Pennsylvania town’s fight against the slaughterhouse polluting it
When Trish Leigey’s taps started running brown and foul in late 2019, she had an uneasy suspicion about what was t...
No, rolling back these environmental rules won’t lower your grocery bill
Nearly six years ago, during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, the president signed a piece of biparti...
Biden’s clean drinking water plan is being rebranded as MAHA
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New York backtracked on its climate goals. Here’s why.
Last week, New York became the first state in the country to weaken a mandatory climate law passed by its own legi...
This Trump official is dead set on saving a crumbling California dam
The Potter Valley Project, which dams Northern California’s Eel River, isn’t doing very much right now. Its reserv...
The hidden cost of owning an EV: Expensive insurance
Electric vehicles offer many opportunities to save money: on gas, on oil changes, on engine maintenance. But, it t...
The fight to protect pollinators and people from the ‘pesticides that are everywhere’
Born and raised in Colorado, Cory Kreft began working on a honey farm at 15 years old. He returned to beekeeping a...
The USDA canceled $300M in farm grants, citing fraud. Did it make up the evidence?
Leah Atwood was rattled. It was the tail end of March, and for days she and her colleagues at Agroecology Commons ...