How Some Communities are Monitoring Their Own Air Quality
In Ohio, local advocacy groups are using low-cost sensors to gather information.
Uncovering America’s First Oil Landscape
In Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley, the messy legacy of the country’s first petroleum boom.
America’s Largest Inland Port is Running Out of Water
The proposed solution — a thirty-one-mile-long pipeline draining Lake Michigan — is dividing residents of Joliet, Illinois.
Rust Belt Labor: A Reading List
Stories of Rust Belt workers--their lives, histories, memories, and resistance.
The Long Tail of Indiana’s Oil and Gas Boom
The state’s early industry remade more than the landscape.
Ida Tarbell: Reporting the Oil Region
An excerpt from "Citizen Reporters."
The Enduring Legacy of the 2010 Kalamazoo River Oil Spill
Nearly a decade after one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history, the landscape has changed.
Northwest Indiana’s Slow Burn
Water, oil, and industrial volcanoes in Indiana's Calumet region, along the shore of Lake Michigan.
The Oil Pipelines Putting the Great Lakes at Risk
Two hundred feet below the surface of the Straits of Mackinac, oil is moving through the Great Lakes.