stLouISTOil companies used to run this town. Now they’re back — to mine for lithium.
Fossil fuel companies are turning to rural communities for critical minerals, raising familiar hopes and fears.
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Bottom trawling shreds the seafloor. It may also be a huge source of carbon emissions.
Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the climate.
‘Control the narrative’: How an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news
A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither publishes critical stories about the utility.
Why humans are putting ‘coal’ and ‘oil’ back in the ground
Startups are processing plant waste into concentrated carbon to be buried or injected underground. It’s like fossil fuels, but in reverse.
A decades-long battle against North Carolina’s largest landfill is ramping up
“There is not a house in this community that has not had a person who has suffered from some type of cancer or kidney failure.”
FEMA to overhaul its disaster aid system after decades of criticism
The agency will offer upfront cash payments to disaster survivors and slash some of its infamous red tape.
How climate disasters hurt adolescents’ mental health
Young people traumatized by Hurricane Maria were more likely to report substance use.
How an oil boom in North Dakota led to a boom in evictions
New study links surge of oil workers to long-term residents losing their homes.
1 year after the toxic train derailment, is East Palestine safe? Depends on whom you ask.
"We are truly the canaries in the coal mine."
Biden protected the lands surrounding the Grand Canyon. Uranium mining is happening there anyway.
There's a long, nasty history of uranium mining on Native lands, but the company says this time is different.
To keep building materials out of landfills, cities are embracing ‘deconstruction’
From Portland to San Antonio, cities have begun to mandate that old buildings be taken apart instead of demolished. How do these ordinances work?
Companies are hiding their climate progress. A new report explains why.
In a twist, the greenest companies are talking about their climate efforts the least.
Can carbon capture solve desalination’s waste problem?
A startup claims it can store carbon dioxide in the toxic brine produced by desalination plants.
How to build renewables without threatening biodiversity? Carefully.
Researchers say coupling wind and solar farms with actual farms is a good place to start.
Shining light on energy inequity in Puerto Rico
Researchers are working with communities in Puerto Rico to build more sustainable systems in the face of ongoing challenges.
How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers
A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.
Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
The project is over budget and behind schedule, with a lot of hard work left to do. Its opponents hope that makes fossil fuel companies think twice about building the next one.
Puerto Rico is using residents’ home batteries to back up its grid
The yearlong pilot could be the first step in creating a residential-storage virtual power plant larger than any in North America.
A huge battery has replaced Hawaiʻi’s last coal plant
Plus Power’s Kapolei battery is officially online. The pioneering project is a leading example of how to shift crucial grid functions from fossil-fueled plants to clean energy.
Power companies paid civil rights leaders in the South. They became loyal industry advocates.
A joint investigation by Floodlight and Capital B shows millions of dollars flowed from utilities to Black leaders and their groups since at least 2009.