Isabelle Chapman

Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.

Hundreds of these coal waste sites dot the country. Forty or fewer have a protective liner to keep their contents contained, and more than 200 have been shown to contaminate groundwater with toxic substances at levels that exceed federal safety standards.

Alabama’s largest utility plans to bury a heap of toxic coal waste in one of North America’s most biodiverse river systems. Experts say it will put one of the nation’s most pristine wetlands at risk.

After 9/11, Staten Island’s defunct Fresh Kills landfill became a forensic site for Ground Zero debris. Nineteen years later, the city is transforming it into a park. Residents worry it’s making them sick, but the city has found “little evidence” of a link.

Sound like hippy-dippy, tree-hugging nonsense? You’re wrong. The zero-waste movement has teeth, and it’s coming to a city near you.

Someone has been spray-painting profanity and racial slurs on buildings in Charleston -- including a library named after a woman that Dylan Roof killed during his attack on a black church.