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Bettmann / Getty Will Trump Change the Way Presidents Approach National Monuments?
Since Theodore Roosevelt, administrations have designated land across the country, but never before have they scaled down sites to the extent proposed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
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John Bazemore / AP How To Build Hurricane-Proof Cities
In the age of climate change, the only way to protect the American coastal metropolis is to rethink it entirely.
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Stephen Yang / Reuters Will Trump Direct FEMA to Fund Churches Hit by Hurricanes?
The president weighs in on a long-standing debate over using public money to support religious organizations.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Can Congress Bring the National Flood Insurance Program Above Water?
The debate over too-low premiums and repetitive payouts grinds on, even as the thunderheads roll in and the water levels rise.
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Carolyn Kaster The Executive Branch's Sharp Turn to the Right
A new lawsuit captures the trench warfare unfolding as opposition groups protest the administration’s rollback of regulations government-wide.
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Leah Varjacques / The Atlantic The Compounded Pain of Contamination and Dislocation
A month after residents of an East Chicago public housing complex learned they’d been living on dangerously polluted land for decades, they were told they’d have to leave their community.
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Jacob Myrick The Poisoned Generation
The story of a decades-long lead-poisoning lawsuit in New Orleans illustrates how the toxin destroys black families and communities alike.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Barack Obama's Seven-Year Presidency
The lone legislative accomplishment of Donald Trump’s first 100 days will likely be erasing the final months of his predecessor’s tenure.
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Chelsea Beck Seeking an Escape From Trump’s America
Why some people are withdrawing from mainstream society into “intentional communities”—and what the rest of the country can learn from them
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Rex Tillerson Says Climate Change Is Real, but …
The former oilman downplayed humanity’s responsibility for raising the global thermostat on Wednesday.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters The Historic Victory at Standing Rock
What it means, what the law says, and what comes next
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Reuters 2016's Most Interesting Climate-Change Fights Are in the States
Ballot provisions in Washington and Florida reveal the conflicting ways that Americans are responding to climate change.
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Chuck Burton / AP The EPA's Failure to Protect People From the Environment
A new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds the agency toothless—or even harmful—in addressing environmental justice.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Obama Could Lose His Big Climate Case
It looked likelier than ever at this week’s “Super Bowl of climate law.”
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Andrew Cullen / Reuters The Obama Administration Temporarily Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline
The surprise move came after a federal judge declined to stop the 1,100-mile fossil fuel project’s construction.
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Peter Dejong / AP The Winds Are Changing for Renewable Energy
Red states won’t abandon their resistance to renewable mandates, but over time, the growing economic dynamism of solar and wind energy could compel a more balanced approach.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP A Yuuuuuge Climate Flip Flop
Seven years ago, the presumptive Republican nominee called for urgent action to stop climate change.
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Paul Sancya / AP Coal Miners Are Political Canaries
Hillary Clinton has detailed, practical plans to help Appalachia—so why aren’t voters there listening?
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Brennan Linsley / AP America’s Never-Ending Oil Consumption
Why presidents have found it so difficult to ask people to just use less
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John Flesher / AP Who Gets to Drink From the Great Lakes?
A city’s proposal to divert Lake Michigan water is raising concerns about future water grabs from outlying regions.
