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Pollution

Health

The Refinery Next Door

African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?

Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 30min Permalink

Science

Planet Plastic

How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades.

Tim Dickinson Rolling Stone Mar 2020 30min Permalink

Travel

In Lagos, Space For My Thoughts To Fly

On nomadism, toxicity, and the question of home.

Allyn Gaestel Guernica Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Politics Health

Compromised

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

Ted Genoways The New Republic Dec 2017 25min Permalink

Science Health

The Invisible Catastrophe

Over four months, a methane well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon leaked Lebanon’s equivalent of yearly emissions into the atmosphere. No one knows what the long-term effects will be.

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Nathaniel Rich on the Longform Podcast

Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Mar 2016 15min Permalink

Science

How the Gold King Mine Spill Threatens the Navajo Nation

Last August, contaminated water escaped from an abandoned mine in Colorado and traveled down the Animas River to Shiprock, the second-largest city in the Navajo Nation. Two weeks later, the EPA declared the sludge-filled river safe.

Robert Sanchez 5820 Feb 2016 20min Permalink

Science

The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

Rob Billot spent eight years defending corporate clients in environmental cases. Then Wilbur Tennant called.

Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Jan 2016 20min Permalink

Science World

China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet

On the world’s biggest polluter.

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Sep 2014 30min Permalink

Science

The Deluge

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

Vince Beiser Pacific Standard Mar 2013 25min Permalink

Science

The Avenging Angel

On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

Howie Kahn O Magazine Sep 2011 20min Permalink