Environment

For a quarter-century, Peter Wright has defended companies responsible for some of the biggest industrial disasters, including Dow Chemical and Monsanto.

This is not the first time Puerto Rico’s government has sought to outsource prisons. Previous attempts ended in rights abuses and riots.

Climate activists turned the valve wheels on five tar sands pipelines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Washington state to stop the flow of oil.

Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are designing a recovery that defends their island. Politicians and bitcoin billionaires have other ideas.

TigerSwan, the mercenary security firm that worked to suppress the NoDAPL movement, is promoting its disaster response efforts in Houston and Puerto Rico.

The commerce secretary made a fortune selling U.S. steel companies to a foreign entity and evaded responsibility for environmental cleanup.

The state’s relationship with Energy Transfer Partners stands in stark contrast to its lack of engagement with activists opposing the Bayou Bridge pipeline.

As an expert on perfluorinated chemicals, Professor John Giesy was in a position to help 3M keep damaging papers out of the scientific literature.

While the dangers of PFOA and PFOS are widely known, very little is known about the other chemicals in their class, PFAS.

The U.S. military is spending billions to clean up drinking water contaminated with toxic firefighting foam while continuing to use dangerous new formulas.