Clean Water Act

“Big money alone does not fully explain the Republican embrace of the gospel of more.”

Whatever the Trump administration does with Environmental Protection Agency, its urban legacy is clear.

Richard Nixon helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.

As environmental rights seem on the verge of a comeback, it’s worth remembering why they once seemed so promising, and why that promise remains unfulfilled.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

Oysters are working tirelessly for the benefit of New York Harbor after years of over-harvesting and sewage-induced turmoil.

For 30 years, the debate has largely ignored the soaring costs of inaction.

His time working for Monsanto and other polluting industries helped make him the fierce conservative he is today.

The resurgence of the wild rice harvest seeks to tells the story of settler colonialism, tribal kinship and ecological stewardship.

“Green” public relations work has flown below the radar but made a huge impact.

Trump, Biden, and public lands.

Reading Silent Spring today, in the hazy reddish glow of climate catastrophe, is both an exhilarating and a melancholy pleasure.

The events of June 1969 have come to define both Cleveland and the river. Some Clevelanders have a different story.

Before Earth Day made a name for the environmental movement, a massive oil spill put a spotlight on the dangers of pollution.

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.

How the disaster energized the nascent environmental movement and led to a slew of legislative changes.

Lyndon B. Johnson's visionary set of legislation turns 50 years old.

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.