Podcast Episode · Idaho Matters · August 13 · 15m

Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...

Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...

Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps p...

Officials at the agency knew about the use of potentially dangerous “forever chemicals” in protective gear years before publicly acknowledging the issue, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules. As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

Public safety-general assignment reporter WyoFile serves Wyoming’s civic life with community-supported, nonpartisan, public-interest journalism. To

The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM FOR PUBLIC LANDS.

The request follows ProPublica reporting that DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations left thousands of vacant jobs at the Forest Service, severely hampering its ability to fight wildfires.

DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.

DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.

Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing…

The legislation follows a ProPublica and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting investigation on a $2 billion Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted Native Americans seeking drug and alcohol…

The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.

A ProPublica investigation spurred a criminal inquiry into the practice of oncologist Thomas C. Weiner. Still, his medical license has been renewed by the state of Montana.

Los Angeles after the fires.

Her new Whitney retrospective is the only one so far to honor a Native American artist. She’s not doing it alone: “My community comes with me.”

Teachers and tycoons, city workers and celebrities talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires.

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Well, 2024 was fairly bad, and 2025 may in fact be worse. Regardless, we will be reading. Here are the books the Lit Hub staff is most excited to pick up in the (first half of the) year ahead. JANU…

Good stories don't happen just anywhere. In this critique-based workshop, we’ll focus on writing that brings specific environments to life in all their nuance and complexity, and we’ll think about how...

Los Alamos is growing at a pace not seen since J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.

Los Alamos is growing at a pace not seen since J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.

Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.

Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said.

Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]

Podcast Episode · Apple News+ Narrated · 10/28/2024 · Subscribers Only · 38m

Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East.

Meet the faculty and guests for the 2023 Environmental Writers’ Conference.