Sprawling AI data centers, hungry for land, water and power, are coming. Plans for the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in a drought-stricken region in Alberta.
Recycling doesn’t address any of plastic’s human and environmental impacts. It’s essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities.
Already plagued by industrial pollution and health care access issues, experts say climate change is making things even more difficult for people with asthma in Detroit.
Months after a fatal methane explosion destroyed a home and killed a resident above the Oak Grove coal mine, Alabama regulators have indefinitely suspended plans to require methane monitoring at expanding mines—a move experts call “astonishing and reckless.”
Arizona’s 2023 moratorium on new groundwater-reliant subdivisions has frozen massive master-planned projects on Phoenix’s fringes, sharpening a political fight that pits housing affordability against long-term water security.
