In 2023, Peter DeCarlo and other Johns Hopkins University researchers drove through Louisiana’s industrial corridor with a mobile laboratory to measure air pollution. They discovered that cancer risks ...

Barbara Washington is seen in this 2019 photo outside her home in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” Washington, from the nonprofit environmental advocacy group Inclusive Louisiana, and other activists ...

Thermal imagery (left) captured in late March shows one of the 10 gas-fired turbines in operation at OpenAI’s flagship data center in Abilene, Texas. (Evan Simon / Floodlight) This story is from ...

Diesel truck pollution from the busiest port complex in the United States has fouled the air in nearby neighborhoods in Southern California for decades. So when port officials asked for feedback on ...

Louisiana environmental advocate James Hiatt of For a Better Bayou says communities see little benefit when liquefied natural gas terminals come to town. (Jeffrey Basinger / Floodlight) Dear ...

Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar power. But now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, ...

West Virginia coal plant conversion seen as a ‘miracle.’ Not everyone is a believer. The state is betting $50 million on a plan to produce hydrogen and graphite from coal with no greenhouse gasses — ...