Environment

As Harvey continues to pummel Houston, the city is using call lists and maps to help community health workers keep in touch with thousands of people. Some are in wheelchairs, others may need oxygen, ventilators or other medical devices that rely on electricity. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.

As the devastation continues to mount in Texas, so does the heavy debt owed by the National Flood Insurance Program. The program, which is managed by FEMA, already borrowed nearly $25 billion, most of it to cover claims from Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy. The program was supposed to effectively manage the cost of flood […]

Harvard University researchers say a review of Exxon Mobil documents show the company misled investors and the public about how much it knew about climate change. That’s already the subject of investigations by the attorneys general in New York and Massachusetts. Their report says that the internal communication between scientists at Exxon Mobile was drastically […]