Community leader Kindra Arnesen celebrates court ruling against Chevron, halt to Mississippi River diversion project ROCKY KISTNER APR 22, 2025 Kindra Arnesen and her Louisiana fishing community have ...

Louisiana officials worry there are more to come ROCKY KISTNER MAY 06, 2025 A little more than a month ago, Plaquemines Parish officials were toasting a landmark $745-million judgment against Chevron ...

Two major American universities are in the news, thanks to the spadework of a number of small, independent news and research organizations. Newly unearthed documents reveal that the oil and ...

The author, Carlos Carabaña, in the field. For the story, his team worked more than seven months, obtained various confidential documents and archival video, took 10 field trips and interviewed 30 ...

How EPA chief Zeldin became a cheerleader for “Drill baby drill” By Rocky Kistner March 7, 2025 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, Arizona, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia ...

A screenshot from the first-place winner of the large market feature story prize from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 22nd Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment, “What Do the ...

William (Rocky) Kistner Special to the Post-DispatchJun 13, 2024 This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. ST. LOUIS — Robin Proudie remembers working concessions at the old Busch ...

To highlight some of the reporting insights of these winners, we’ve distilled their video comments to key points focused on how they chose to report their stories. You can click each thumbnail to view ...

What’s more, their food products can use waste materials from a variety of dates that most farmers ignore or discard, saving energy and reducing climate-altering emissions like methane.That could have ...

This week, after years of study, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers green-lighted a massive Mississippi River diversion project, part of Louisiana’s 50-year plan to protect and rebuild its rapidly ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, Arizona, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) MoneyTrail.Substack.com A push to mark the buried history of ‘harrowing’ slave prisons ...

There is nothing more impactful than stories about people on the front lines of climate change and environmental assaults. The fishermen, the farmers, the residents battling refinery pollution and ...