Christopher Harress | charress@reckonmedia.com

Throughout successive presidencies, the EPA’s power to protect the environment and citizens has diminished enormously under a cloud of bipartisanship politics, court decisions, and its unwillingness to enforce environmental laws and rules.

Weather analysis suggests that at least two-thirds of the country could face blackouts this summer, prompting the government to create a website to assess risks and provide resources. Phoenix, Ariz., emerges as the most vulnerable city, with half of its population requiring emergency hospital care if blackouts occur.

The reliance on plastic bottled water has become a necessity due to the deteriorating water infrastructure and pollution problems in predominantly Black U.S. communities, which have lacked access to clean and reliable tap water for decades.

Inequality, even in death, means Black cemeteries are at greater risk from severe weather and climate change.

When it comes to climate change, some places in the United States are safer than others.

Plastic is everywhere and there may be no escape from it.

A $31 billion freight merger will quadruple train traffic in dozens of neighborhoods

In Native American culture, the land is precious.

Plastic is everywhere.

The electric vehicle revolution is about to get a big boost.

Texas has been a national leader in renewable energy for over 15 years. Its legislature wants to roll that progress back.

The proposed rule will be reviewed Thursday.

After years of trying, residents in Louisiana's Cancer Alley aren't asking for the giant chemical plants in their neighborhoods to leave or stop operating. They know that's an impossible ask. What they want instead is a sobering reality of environmental injustice in the United States.

Modern weather technology has saved countless lives. But there's still more to be done.

Atmospheric rivers have caused havoc in California. But they also have a good side.