Energy & Environment

Western States Opposed Tribes’ Access to the Colorado River 70 Years Ago. History Is Repeating Itself.

by Mark Olalde, ProPublica, and Anna V. Smith, High Country News ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Waiting for Water:Tribes’ Fight for a Promised Resource The U.S. Supreme Court ruled...

Louisiana’s saltwater wedge is a slow-motion disaster

"This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here." The Mississippi River is a connected system. If farms dump fertilizer into the river’s tributaries in Ohio, that waste ends up in the Gulf of Mexico. If heavy rains make the river’s level rise...