A billion-dollar seawall may shield the city’s wealthy core — but not the vulnerable communities beyond it. Who will be forced to move?

To learn more about this investigation, listen to the Sea Change podcast from WWNO/WRKF. Jackson Voss loves his alma mater, Louisiana State University. He appreciates that his undergraduate education ...

This 2022 photo shows an abandoned theater in Pine Bluff, Ark., one of the towns where local officials were told last year that Imola Automotive USA would be building an electric vehicle plant. “We ...

On a windy night in early January, second-grade teacher Barbara Ishida spotted the Eaton Fire glowing in the hills behind her home in Altadena, California. Her mind turned to the deadly wildfires in ...

Community member James Harris installs ambient air monitors to measure neighborhood air quality. Groundwork-Denver, a community organization in Denver, Colo., partnered with RTI International for a ...

Concrete built much of the modern world. It paves highways, shelters millions and forms the foundations of countless buildings. But cement, the crucial powder that serves as the binder in concrete, ...

It was 2:30 in the morning on Nov. 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s $7 billion Solar For All Program faces an uncertain fate following last week’s rollout of executive orders from President Donald Trump putting a freeze on ...

Chevron operates a major refinery in Richmond, Calif., a community with high childhood asthma rates. It also owns the city's dominant news site, putting its own spin on events, and runs similar ...

It began with a lobbyist’s pitch. Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says a lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, ...

A shuttered Michigan nuclear plant is poised to start up again, buoyed by $3.1 billion in public subsidies. In Pennsylvania, tech giant Microsoft said its need for more electricity led it to strike an ...

When a lighting contractor approached the Iberia Parish School District in Louisiana and offered it no-strings attached money for energy efficiency upgrades, Harry Lopez, manager of maintenance for ...