How Bankruptcy Lets Oil and Gas Companies Evade Cleanup Rules
“It’s basically bankruptcy for profit.”
Naveena Sadasivam
Waves of Abandonment
The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.
Damned to Fail
Unregulated dams across Texas are increasingly failing—putting people and property in jeopardy.
Killing the Colorado
An investigation into why the West is running out of water.
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Holy Crop
The labyrinth of policies that reward Arizona farmers for growing cotton, which uses six times as much water as lettuce and 60 percent more than wheat.
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The ‘Water Witch’
The woman who found the water to keep Las Vegas growing, for better or worse.
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Use It or Lose It
How a century-old water deal is encouraging waste and worsening the drought.
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End of the Miracle Machines
How the achievement of moving water comes at an enormous cost to the environment.
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Less Than Zero
Ground water and surface water stores are interconnected. But we count them twice.
