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Saudi-owned corporate farms are draining Arizona’s desert dry

Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local ...
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As millions face climate relocation, the nation’s first attempt sparks warnings and regret

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 ...
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Building toward disaster: Growth collides with rising seas in Charleston

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 ...
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Floodlight editor-in-chief

Floodlight is hiring an editor-in-chief to lead the organization's journalistic mission, guide its team of investigative reporters through the next phase of organizational growth and deepen Floodlight ...
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From ski trails to hiking paths, extreme heat is reshaping recreation — and our attitudes

In south-central Wisconsin, near record warmth in January and two record-breaking summer heat waves have cross-country skiers nervous they won’t be getting much snow this winter — again. And it’s not ...
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Trump-fueled gas boom has fenceline Gulf Coast communities on edge

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 ...
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A startup promised 45,000 EV jobs to struggling towns. They’re still waiting.

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 ...
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‘Farming in the dark’: How Rollins’ USDA is endangering American agriculture

Brooke Rollins is sworn-in during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Agriculture on Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tom ...
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Floods are swallowing their village. But for them and others, the EPA has cut the lifeline.

Acre by acre, the village of Kipnuk is falling into the river. The small Alaskan tribal village sits on permafrost, which is thawing fast as global temperatures rise. That’s left the banks of the ...
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$80 million, few rules: Louisiana’s energy efficiency ‘slush fund’

When a lighting contractor approached the Iberia Parish School District in Louisiana and offered it no-strings attached money for energy efficiency upgrades, Harry Lopez, manager of maintenance for ...
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GOP gets 85% of the benefit of climate law. Some still hate it.

Ajulo Othow started solar and storage company EnerWealth Solutions seven years ago to get small solar projects on farmland and other places in rural communities in the Southeast where money is tight ...