The settlement requires the quarry to set buffer zones around houses or buildings, notify residents before blasting and stop operating at night or on Sundays.

By Dennis Pillion

Residents of the small north Alabama community of Belle Mina are breathing easier after reaching a settlement with a limestone quarry they say was disrupting their homes and places of worship.

Alabama Limestone Quarry Settles Lawsuit Over Dust, Noise

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission stops short of fulfilling the Trump administration’s wishes but puts regional grid operators on a “short leash.”

By Lisa Sorg, Charles Paullin

The nation’s electric grid is stressed out.

Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers

Bruggers was known to colleagues as a dogged reporter and a generous coworker, and to sources as an honest watchdog.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

James Bruggers, whose decades of dogged reporting shined a light on polluting corporations, inadequate regulations and the people who fought against them for environmental justice, died Tuesday at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 68.

James Bruggers, Who Brought Passion and Kindness to Environmental Reporting, Dies at 68