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 ...

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 ...

Maclean: There are so many angles I would have kept following, if only I had had more time.. SEJournal: What lessons have you learned from your story or project?. Maclean: To focus on people when ...

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 ...

By Rocky Kistner. If pictures are worth a thousand words, what are videos worth? Whatever the answer, most will surely agree these nine short videos are priceless, representing the first-place winners ...

Experts say there are financial speed bumps ahead for environmental startups like Dayts, especially as Israel endures an unprecedented period of political unrest. Michael Ofran, a fruit and vegetable ...

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 ...