EPA Opens Civil Rights Probe of Alabama’s Sewage Failures
Lance Cheung / U.S. Department of Agriculture This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sewage collecting in crudely dug trenches. Failing septic tanks that send waste bubbling into backyards. These are some of the common sights across Alabama’s Black Belt, a strip of 24 continuous counties blessed…
Cities Are Grappling With “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water
Cole Benak collects a water sample. Kaveer Rai/High Country News This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just inside the rolled-up door of a pumphouse garage, Cole Benak pulled on a pair of black Nitrile gloves. Outside, morning sunshine warmed the quiet wooded hillside. From the…
Supreme Court Restricts EPA’s Ability to Protect US Waterways
Michael and Chantell Sackett, outside the Supreme Court in 2011, have waged a long legal battle to build a house on wetlands near one of Idaho’s largest lakes.Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here…
The EPA Is Reportedly Proposing Its Strictest-Ever Limits on Auto Emissions
Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing a regulation that would ensure up to two-thirds of all new cars sold by 2032 will be fully electric, according to reporting from the New York Times and Washington Post. The proposal would go beyond…
As Biden Dispatches Disaster Relief to East Palestine, Trump Takes Credit
Gene J. Puskar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday evening, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the “breaking” news that father would visit East Palestine, Ohio, next week, in the wake of the train derailment there whose aftermath has cloaked the region in a toxic…
What Will Brazil Do With Illegally Trafficked American Garbage?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced in collaboration with Columbia Journalism Investigations and UOL. It was republished in partnership with Mother Jones. A green squeegee. A plastic bottle half-filled with neon yellow liquid. Used geriatric diapers. Latex gloves.…