Across the U.S., rural towns are engaged in bitter battles against noise and air pollution from cryptomines. These will only get more common now that President Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and other pro-crypto policies are in the works.

Microplastics really are a public health emergency. But instead of talking about his signature issue, he’s babbling about irrelevant moral panics and being dangerously vague about a measles outbreak.

After some shocking discoveries a few years back, Maine has led the charge in banning the use of sewage-based fertilizers, which have been found to contaminate farmlands with PFAS. Getting national policies on the books, however, may prove much harder.

A Brown University study found that organized opposition to wind energy was fueled by extensive “information” from the fossil fuel industry.

For climate activists, the current moment is almost unbearably bleak. But the task is clear: to build a mass movement that completely overhauls our current political system.

Kamala Harris needs to make an affirmative case for her climate policy, rather than accepting Trump’s framing.

Coming out strongly against microplastics, pesticides, and other forms of pollution could pull RFK Jr. voters to the Democrats. It’s also just good policy.

The former president’s crude appeals to masculinity culture clash with his lax approach toward PFAS and pesticides, which have been linked to lowered testosterone and sperm count.

Tim Jackson found unlikely fame by arguing that slower growth will actually make us happier—and more prosperous.

Florida is slated to receive more federal funds for lead replacement than almost any other state. But experts say it doesn’t actually have many lead pipes.

Rich homeowners are cutting or poisoning trees for a better view and even better profit. Weak fines won’t stop them.

By refusing to do so, he’s not only imperiling American democracy.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has an unusual interpretation of Oklahoma v. Tyson.

Some people mistakenly think raw milk could protect against bird flu. Instead, they could infect themselves, giving the virus a better chance to mutate for rapid human-to-human transmission.

Making polluters pay for the damage they cause isn’t radical. The federal Superfund law has been notching up successes for decades.

The PFAS in playing fields—and the open question of what they might do to kids—is turning into a culture war.

While wild animals can spread the virus, industrial farms are where it really thrives—and likely originated.

Lower-income people living in smaller spaces are especially affected by the toxic gases these ranges leak.

And they are fighting every effort to ban it.