Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local families spend their savings drilling new wells.

Climate activists and a few states are taking a new approach to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for planet-warming greenhouse gasses: Fees to help pay for climate-related damage caused by ...

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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BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest ...

Fossil fuels power the Texas economy, accounting for some 14% of gross state product between 2019 and 2020. Now, Texas is the first state in the nation to pass anti-divestment laws for fossil fuels.

The week before Thanksgiving, employees of Cameron LNG handed out turkeys and fixings to residents in southwest Louisiana. Earlier in the month, Cheniere Energy, Cameron LNG, and Venture Global LNG ...

Rich Piar farms soybeans in Knox County, Ohio. “We try to be good stewards of the ground,” he said. The solar project he hopes will be built on his land, “from my research, is a decent thing. We have ...

Concrete built much of the modern world. It paves highways, shelters millions and forms the foundations of countless buildings. But cement, the crucial powder that serves as the binder in concrete, ...

In the Navajo Nation, and for many tribes, sage is a sacred plant burned in ceremonies to promote healing, spiritual protection and connection to the land. But Meredith Benally, who is Diné and the co ...

Laura Beth Resnick, photographed here collecting flowers at her Maryland farm, spent $36,000 to have solar panels installed at the farm, expecting to get the same amount in grant money from the U.S.