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Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going to be talking about the lasting political impact of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. When we talk about the impacts of climate change in the United States, and in particular the racial dimension of those […]

With electricity demand spiking, the Southern Company has opted to keep burning fossil fuels.

The backlash against an effort to resettle 200,000 evacuees holds lessons for future disasters.

Climate change is threatening Earth's biodiversity. Could frozen regions of the moon be the best place to "back up" lifeforms?

"It has that sense of a bomb that's going to go off."

You're legally entitled to fix your own gadgets in California, Minnesota, and New York — but not all tech companies have gotten the memo.

Avangrid Renewables said it plans to review comments from tribal nations and private landowners.

More than 10 million Ecuadorians voted last year to ban oil operations in part of the Amazon rainforest. But heavy crude has continued to flow from the region, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous families.

The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit.

Out of 1,500 policies in 41 countries, a small fraction had a big impact.

A new report from the EPA inspector general found the state’s health department saw evidence of elevated lead levels as early as 2015.

An industrial worker got one whiff of ethylene oxide. Twenty years later, he still hasn’t recovered — and his community is searching for answers.

Despite health risks, Puerto Rico keeps tax incentives in place for cancer-causing chemical polluters.

Regulators hope sealed enclosures can keep a dangerous chemical from getting loose. Experts think they’re wrong.

Across the world, farmers are turning waste biomass into biochar, improving soils, boosting yields, and creating a new source of income.

But even products certified as "compostable" are causing headaches.

In her newest book, activist and scholar adrienne maree brown offers a practical guide to empathy.

As heavy rains overwhelm aging pipes, Boston and NYC are choosing very different paths forward.

New research proposes a new, more expansive way to look at companies’ contribution to global net-zero.

A national flexitarian diet would reduce the amount of U.S. farmland by roughly the size of South Dakota.