Activism

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—The promises, like the floodwaters, have come in waves.  Over the years, Pastor Timothy Williams, a resident of...

The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Ellen McLaughlin said she wasn’t speaking for herself.  “I speak for the salamanders,” she told those gathered at a...

When a gold mine in rural Liberia spewed three million gallons of cyanide-laced wastewater into soil and groundwater in 2016,...

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of cities, towns and villages across the country on Saturday to protest...

When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made a defiant reference to “climate change religion” in order to justify a...

CHICAGO—A community meeting had barely begun when residents leapt out of their seats in an outpouring of frustration and distrust....

In an August meeting of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power company, board member...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Tiya Miles,...

Wetlands and ephemeral streams provide a wide variety of benefits to people and wildlife, from flood protection for local communities,...