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Brown University and Tougaloo College students are testing for potential air and noise pollution near the Drax wood pellet plant in Gloster, Mississippi.
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PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” can cause cancer and problems during pregnancy.
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Louisiana has gained primary control over where companies can store carbon dioxide underground in the state, after a decision from federal environmental regulators on Thursday.
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The civil rights complaint argues that the Indigenous residents of the island were unfairly excluded from decision making and forced to surrender control of their island properties.
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Alternating extremes of heavy rainfall and drought are resulting in wildly varying river levels. For the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it makes the multi-million-dollar practice of dredging for more difficult to plan.
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Four Mississippi River mayors spent last week in Dubai at the United Nations’ annual climate change conference, where they announced new climate resilience plans.
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On the heels of Mississippi’s record-breaking summer, the historic neighborhood hopes that adding more trees and green space can solve its heat island problem.
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A proposal that would allow industries to permanently stash climate-polluting carbon dioxide beneath national forests puts those habitats and the people near them risk.
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The company in question was accused of storing waste without a license and spilling toxic waste into the environment about a decade ago in Montana.
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The subterranean fire smoldered and smoked for much of the fall, contributing to several dangerous "super fog" events around New Orleans and intermittently affecting the region's air quality for several weeks.
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Watch a replay of the Gulf States Newsroom's listening session for its recent series about towns transformed by major environmental shifts.
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It’s the second year in a row that extreme drought has caused a shrinking channel, forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge later in the season than normal.