People & Population

"The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again."

"On a recent Wednesday night, three flares were raging from the industrial smoke stacks at Norco Shell, so bright they could be seen miles away from the interstate at the Bonnet Carré Spillway. They were my guide to Woodland Plantation in La Place, Louisiana, whose new owners were commemorating the site of the largest enslaved revolt in U.S. history."

"Funding delays for lead pipe replacement and the elimination of a CDC lead program could put children at risk."

"A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says."

"The president’s suite of executive orders to decimate environmental regulations will propel his administration into court."

"The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do."

"Jared Bossly was planting soybeans one spring night in 2023 on his 2,000-acre farm in South Dakota when he spotted a sheriff’s vehicle parked at the corner of his property. He had a hunch it wasn’t a social visit."

"The National Weather Service is no longer providing language translations of its products, a change that experts say could put non-English speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme weather."