Louisiana environmental advocate James Hiatt of For a Better Bayou says communities see little benefit when liquefied natural gas terminals come to town. (Jeffrey Basinger / Floodlight) Dear ...

Tom Wood near his home in Salome, Ariz, on April 22, 2025. Wood and his wife had to drill a new well after the previous one went dry. Credit: Caroline Gutman This far out, there’s no such thing as ...

A boy looks out over Jamaica Bay in the Edgemere neighborhood of New York City. The community, which is flanked by the Atlantic Ocean and the bay, is at growing risk of coastal flooding due to sea ...

It began with a lobbyist’s pitch. Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says a lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, ...

Rich Piar farms soybeans in Knox County, Ohio. “We try to be good stewards of the ground,” he said. The solar project he hopes will be built on his land, “from my research, is a decent thing. We have ...

For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90 million acres — about the size of Montana — and goes into everything from livestock feed and processed foods to the ...

Laura Beth Resnick, photographed here collecting flowers at her Maryland farm, spent $36,000 to have solar panels installed at the farm, expecting to get the same amount in grant money from the U.S.

Community member James Harris installs ambient air monitors to measure neighborhood air quality. Groundwork-Denver, a community organization in Denver, Colo., partnered with RTI International for a ...

Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago, he felt he had ...

To learn more about this investigation, listen to the Sea Change podcast from WWNO/WRKF. Jackson Voss loves his alma mater, Louisiana State University. He appreciates that his undergraduate education ...

Floodlight is hiring an editor-in-chief to lead the organization's journalistic mission, guide its team of investigative reporters through the next phase of organizational growth and deepen Floodlight ...

In south-central Wisconsin, near record warmth in January and two record-breaking summer heat waves have cross-country skiers nervous they won’t be getting much snow this winter — again. And it’s not ...