State regulators in Mississippi maintain that since the turbines are parked on tractor trailers, they don't require permits.

Ashley Gaignard poses for a photo inside her home in Donaldsonville, La., less than three miles from the world’s largest ammonia plant. “What hurts the most is we're watching the leaders that we ...

Jennifer McDonnell, New York City’s deputy commissioner for solid waste management, explains the Staten Island Composting Facility’s process. Composting keeps organic materials out of the landfill.

For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90 million acres — about the size of Montana — and goes into everything from livestock feed and processed foods to the ...

A boy looks out over Jamaica Bay in the Edgemere neighborhood of New York City. The community, which is flanked by the Atlantic Ocean and the bay, is at growing risk of coastal flooding due to sea ...

This article was produced in partnership between Columbia Journalism Investigations and Documented. It was co-published by The Guardian and republished by Floodlight. Gricelda experienced her deciding ...

Tom Wood near his home in Salome, Ariz, on April 22, 2025. Wood and his wife had to drill a new well after the previous one went dry. Credit: Caroline Gutman This far out, there’s no such thing as ...

Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago, he felt he had ...

On a quiet street near the marsh in Charleston, South Carolina’s Rosemont neighborhood, Luvenia Brown watches the weather reports more than she used to. She’s lost lawn mowers, bikes and outdoor ...

For more than a decade, Rebekah Hinojosa has fought the buildout of liquefied natural gas terminals near the Texas border with Mexico. She wants to save the pristine land fronting the Gulf of Mexico ...

This 2022 photo shows an abandoned theater in Pine Bluff, Ark., one of the towns where local officials were told last year that Imola Automotive USA would be building an electric vehicle plant. “We ...