Texas Quietly Moves to Formalize Acceptable Cancer Risk From Industrial Air Pollution. Public Health Officials Say it’s not Strict Enough. Without public hearings, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is proposing to adopt its 17-year-old standard that scientists and public health officials say fails to account for cumulative air pollution. By Dylan Baddour
As Alabama Judge Orders a Takeover of a Failing Water System, Frustrated Residents Demand Federal Intervention By Lee Hedgepeth
A Rural Pennsylvania Community Goes to Commonwealth Court, Trying to Stop a New Disposal Well for Toxic Fracking Wastewater By Jake Bolster
Tensions Rise in the Rio Grande Basin as Mexico Lags in Water Deliveries to the U.S. By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and photos by Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times
The Danger Upstream: In Disposing Coal Ash, One of These States is Not Like the Others By Lee Hedgepeth
Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate By James Bruggers
At a ‘Climate Convergence,’ Pennsylvania Environmental Activists Urge Gov. Shapiro and State Lawmakers to Do More to Curb Emissions By Jon Hurdle
America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up By Lynzy Billing
Youngstown City Council Unanimously Votes Against an ‘Untested and Dangerous’ Tire Pyrolysis Plant By James Bruggers
Electrifying a Fraction of Vehicles in the Lower Great Lakes Could Save Over a Thousand Lives Annually, Studies Suggest By Aydali Campa