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LAREDO, Texas—The Walker family property at the intersection of I-35 and US-83 in Webb County is a rugged expanse of scrub brush, cacti and a few cattle. But the South Texas family envisions a $7 billion logistics and housing development called Talise rising…

The Rangeley Lakes region can often feel like a forgotten corner of Maine, far from the state’s famed coasts or cities. This western stretch is remote, rugged woodland. Forests become impassable in spring’s muddy months and cool mountain streams teem with…

Environmental lawyers say two new White House directives—designed to greatly expand executive power to strike down federal energy and environmental regulations—are not likely to hold up in court and represent an attempt to move far beyond the established…

In what appears to be the latest attack on the science and regulations that protect public health and the environment, the Trump administration notified top advisors to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific research arm that their first…

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Dr. Neelima Tummala, an ear, nose and throat physician at NYU Langone Health.  We are in the middle of…

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to the White House podium to boost one of his favorite energy sources.  “We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful clean coal once and for all,” he said, as uniformed coal miners lined up behind him. “I tell…

The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians in majority-Black communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and…

Since time immemorial, animal and plant species have performed an evolutionary dance with the environment around them, developing adaptations to respond to shifts in the climate and landscape.  But there is one factor that can permanently halt this…

Political storm clouds darkened the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration again this week as the weather and climate agency fired more than 1,000 workers for the second time within five weeks.The first mass firings started in mid-February and were…

Undermined: Fifteenth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. JASPER, Ala.—Verby Burton said she wasn’t expecting much from Thursday’s meeting of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, the agency tasked with regulating the surface…