The country’s biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who’s going to clean up the $100M mess?
Bill Johnson has witnessed the extent of US Magnesium’s pollution up close. He’s seen the wastewater pond that was so
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How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base
At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and a handful of other
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How the planet fared in 2025 — the good, the bad, and the ugly
If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a series of
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What your cheap clothes cost the planet
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it’s
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Under Trump, the National Renewable Energy Lab is losing ‘renewable’ from its name
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking research institute will no longer have
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The EPA was considering a massive lead cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump shifted guidance.
The county health worker scanned the Omaha home with an X-ray gun, searching for the poison. It was 2022, and
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Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine
Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine
Read MoreA huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US
A Utah company says it has unearthed a massive deposit of minerals crucial for building electric vehicles, semiconductors, satellites, magnets,
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2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us
As the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate change.
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The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the
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