Ken Sleight sat on the edge of a raft with Edward Abbey, dreaming up ways to eliminate Glen Canyon Dam. He later became immortalized in Abbey's 1975 book "The Monkey Wrench Gang," serving as inspiration for the character Seldom Seen Smith.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is promoting himself as a "peacemaker."

Signal species are constantly sending humans messages about our changing world, and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom produced an hourlong radio special all about them.

Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.

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“At a time when the National Park Service is already stretched — they're stretched in staffing, budgets are low — this is just kind of an additional hit,” one park advocate said.

The move comes in response to a silicosis epidemic among fabricators of the popular surfaces

Stories From The States is a weekly podcast that explores, through personal stories, how people and communities across America are being affected by government decisions. Each episode examines a…

Summer heat is becoming more deadly for the elderly in South Texas with record-breaking temperatures and rising costs for electricity.

Summer heat is becoming more deadly for the elderly in South Texas with record-breaking temperatures and rising costs for electricity. This is the installment in an ongoing series, "Powerless."

On a rural stretch of land in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, an open meadow filled with bright wildflowers, a memorial grove of trees and a giant boulder marks the spot where United Airlines Flight…

This story was originally published by Public Health Watch. Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 funeral programs, all for former patients at her pulmonary rehabilitation clinic in Norton, Virginia. “Each one of these represents a life that’s gone because of black lung,” Freeman explained as she flipped through the programs, recognizing names and images.

The producer of podcasts including “We Keep Us Safe,” “Adults in the Room,” and “Lost Patients” on collaborating across newsrooms and finding the big idea within a story

This is the first installment of “Powerless,” a series from Public Health Watch examining how rising temperatures and skyrocketing electricity costs are placing Texans in danger.

This week, a new report finds the number of black lung cases is at its highest since the 1970s. The human cost is high. Also, the author of a new book says reintroducing nearly extinct animals back in...

Provider shortages, insurance barriers and uneven access leave many Central Texas mothers struggling to find care.

The demands come at a time when the federal government is considering weakening a worker-protection rule issued under the Biden administration.

Public Health Watch turns five years old today, with a proven record of investigative journalism that changes lives.

Miners working in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia who've spent at least 25 years underground have the worst rates of black lung disease.

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Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...

Rates of black lung disease amongst Appalachia’s coal miners are at the highest they’ve been in 50 years. Recent data shows that a third of veteran miners have the disease. The epidemic is also striki...

Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land—only to see it returned to their enslavers.

Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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It's now as bad as it was in the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying.

If you’re injured on the job these days, you’re simply out of luck.

“Until you get either some kind of congressional solution or a binding judicial opinion as to what the president's authority is, then we get the unfortunate result of having things bounce back and for...

Americans love their gas stoves, but they pollute homes and are connected to a supply system that leaks methane. That's part of a battle as more people face a decision about switching to electric.

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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill this week that, if made law, would increase black lung disability payments for coal miners and their families and tie the stipends to…

LPM News uncovered that voters from more than 1,800 households may have cast incorrect ballots due to an error by the Jefferson County Clerk’s office. In some instances, this affected where they voted and which representatives they were able to vote for.<br/>

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to be part of the racial justice movement. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as C...

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EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

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Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13%...

Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13%...

From a West Texas measles outbreak to rising vaccine exemptions statewide, families of immunocompromised children depend on herd immunity, which is slowly eroding.