“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...

Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.

USAID was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world — until Elon Musk showed up.

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

Chris Wright is no hater of renewables, nuclear power, or transmission. But the Trump administration’s energy policy is a ...

An annual tribunal where farmworkers share their experiences and needs has spurred laws guaranteeing overtime pay and heat ...

Sámi homelands, known as Sápmi, stretch across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and the report’s authors ...

Trump’s immigration crackdown could cause chaos for communities trying to rebuild after devastating wildfires and floods, as the vast majority of skilled disaster-restoration workers are ...

Hocker lived on Maui when wildfires destroyed as many as 4,000 housing units in August 2023, leveling the town of Lahaina. But as an organizer with the Maui Housing Hui, a tenant advocacy group, she ...

After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong ...