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People & Population

The Forgotten Victims of Hidalgo

Contaminated water sickened thousands of residents near Mexico City for 40 years — even as officials knew they were being poisoned. Then, an investigative news team turned its attention to the polluted region, and produced multiple video and text versions of an award-winning feature focused on the residents’ health, poverty and more. Read a revealing Q&A with investigative producer Carlos Carabaña in the new Inside Story.

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"Trump Team Plans Deep Cuts at Office That Funds Recovery From Big Disasters"

"Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent."

Source: NYTimes, 02/21/2025

"Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls"

"President Trump intends to revoke federal approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy that tolls drivers who enter Manhattan’s busiest streets to help finance repairs to mass transit."

Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2025

"Climate Aid Projects Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down"

"Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle the main American aid agency, U.S.A.I.D."

Source: NYTimes, 02/19/2025

Faith Groups Mobilize To Keep Fighting Climate Change As Trump Exits Paris

"Hundreds of religious communities have joined with businesses, universities and colleges, major investors, local governments, states, and tribal nations in declaring they will continue the work of fulfilling the U.S. pledge in the Paris Agreement. "

Source: Yale Climate Connections, 02/18/2025

From Oil Boom to Lithium Rush — Reporting the Realities

A coming lithium rush in Arkansas drew the notice of journalist Katie Myers, who used a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism to explore whether extraction activities near once-booming energy communities could avoid the economic and environmental impacts of another boom-and-bust cycle for a largely Black region with histories of land dispossession, plantation slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Lessons learned in the latest FEJ StoryLog.

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Insurance Meltdown a Foreseeable Climate Disaster

Whether fires in California or flooding in North Carolina, climate disasters are revealing a major fault line in U.S. emergency response — a serious insurance shortfall that may lead to financial catastrophe. The new Issue Backgrounder explores the risks of underinsured disasters, the limits to the national flood insurance programs and FEMA aid, and the predictable scapegoating that has created solution gridlock.

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Mexico Orders Factory Cleanup After Guardian Toxic Waste Investigation

"Mexican environmental regulators say they have discovered 30,000 tons of improperly stored material with “hazardous characteristics” in the yard of a Mexican plant that is recycling toxic waste shipped from the US."

Source: Guardian, 02/14/2025

"Undocumented Workers Prepare to Clean Up L.A.’s Fires Amid ICE Raids"

"In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that tore through Los Angeles last month, undocumented day laborers will likely make up a significant portion of the workforce tasked with clearing debris and rebuilding homes. As they navigate the environmental hazards of this work, they’re also facing the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on immigrants."

Source: Capital & Main, 02/14/2025

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