The legal pushback, spearheaded by prominent organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Public Health Association, targets the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to dismantle regulations established during…
WASHINGTON — Returning to Capitol Hill after a three-month absence, Senator Mitch McConnell stepped directly into a high-stakes legislative battle last Tuesday, promptly casting a decisive tie-breaking vote within the…
AGANA BAY, Guam — For Lou Leon Guerrero, the governor of Guam, the news arrived the way it often does for leaders of America’s Pacific territories: as an afterthought delivered…
For much of his professional life, Carlos Santos’s office has been a semi-truck cab stranded in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. As a veteran truck driver on the BR-319—a…
While prominent tech oligarchs continue to grandstand on Capitol Hill and across global forums about the theoretical, existential dangers that an artificial intelligence superintelligence might eventually pose to humanity, a…
Two years ago, John Lowrey woke to the terrifying roar of water violently surging into his home. A 65-year-old retiree and proud father of five, Lowrey rushed toward his basement…
A federal appeals court has used the decades-long, compounding water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi—one of the largest majority-Black cities in the United States—to issue a sweeping legal ruling: the U.S.…
As the executive director of the Living Independent Network Corp, Jeremy Maxand spends his days doing everything in his power to help people who cannot drive get around in southern…
For more than half a century, the Endangered Species Act has stood as an indomitable pillar of environmental conservation in the United States. Signed into law in 1973, the landmark…
SAVANNAH, Ga. — For more than a century, the Georgia Public Service Commission has conducted its official business within the confines of Atlanta. On Tuesday, however, the state’s primary utility…