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Troubled by Spreading Landfill Pollution, a Long Island Community Demands Action

For decades, a landfill has towered over the town of Brookhaven. A groundwater contamination plume has spread beneath nearby properties.

By Lauren Dalban

An aerial view of the Brookhaven landfill in New York. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images
Matthew Bormann, a fifth-generation farmer, is one-third of a trio of growers in Iowa’s flat and fertile Des Moines Lobe. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

Snowmelt feeds the Colorado River near its headwaters on April 6 in Rocky Mountain National Park. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Feds Will Soon Impose New Framework on Colorado River if States Can’t Agree How to Manage It

By Wyatt Myskow

The town of Princeton, Iowa, has shuttered two wells in two decades due to persistent nitrate contamination. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

An Iowa Town Spent $800,000 on a New Well. It Pumps Undrinkable Water.

By Anika Jane Beamer

Muddy flood waters of the Catawba River pour over the Oxford Dam, threatening a highway bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024, in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Steve Exum/Getty Images

Supreme Court’s Limitation on Wetlands Protection Will Make Flooding Worse

By Lisa Sorg

After record-low snowpack across the Colorado River Basin, water levels remain low at Lake Powell on April 30, near Page, Ariz. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado River Faces ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Another Dry Winter Lands, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill speaks during a Center for American Progress conference on May 19 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

In New Jersey, Sherrill Agrees to Delay Protections Against Sea Level Rise

By Emilie Lounsberry

A view of wetlands in the Snohomish River Estuary near Everett, Wash. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

As Federal Wetlands’ Protections Falter, Washington State Scientists Turn to AI as a Conservation Tool

By Chad Small

An aerial view of a coal ash pond in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Turn Out in Force to Oppose Trump Coal Ash Rollbacks

By Arcelia Martin

Oil rigs on the shores of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas. Credit: Maryorin Mendez/AFP via Getty Images

In Venezuela, Anxiety About Ramping Up Oil Production in the Heavily Polluted Lake Maracaibo Region

By Avril Silva

Pipes divert raw sewage into the C&O Canal around a broken section of the Potomac Interceptor on Feb. 16 in Cabin John, Md. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Sewage and Fuel Leaks Contaminate the Potomac River, Source of Drinking Water for More Than 5 Million People

By Aman Azhar

Santa Paula resident Ethan Higbee walks the area where an oil spill took place six months earlier in Ventura County. He smells residue he worries is oil remains. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

By Steven Rodas

Rep. John Joyce (R-Pa.) questioned DC Water CEO David Gadis at the Wednesday hearing about the collapse of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line. Credit: House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Congress Grills Officials About the Potomac River Sewage Spill

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is likely to be completed next year. Credit: Dominion Energy

NextEra Energy to Join the Offshore Wind Club, But Does It Matter?

By Dan Gearino

Water sits 30 or more feet below the base of a fishing pier at Lake Corpus Christi on April 28. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency to December as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

By Dylan Baddour, Emily Salazar

An aerial view of the nearly 600-acre coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Ash Lawsuit Can Continue, Appeals Court Rules

By Dennis Pillion

Hanson Professional Services vice president John Michael at his office in Corpus Christi on Monday. “Let’s hold all of our regional system hostage while they wait for their data center,” Michael said. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Leaders Believe Data Center Plans May Be Behind Delays to Emergency Water Supply

By Emily Salazar, Dylan Baddour

People carry their belongings as they evacuate due to flooding in Yaguachi, Ecuador, on Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images

Latin America Faces ‘Hydrological Whiplash’ as Climate Risks Mount

By Bob Berwyn

Coastal flooding hits the Jersey Shore in Avalon on Oct. 12, 2025. Credit: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images

Sea Level Rise and Sunny-Day Flooding Can’t Stop a Building Boom on the Jersey Shore

By Emilie Lounsberry

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