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Neighbors Live in Fear After Pipeline Leak in ‘Unleashing American Energy’ Era

As Trump’s agencies shrink, narrow their role and reduce enforcement, politically connected Energy Transfer is steering a slow clean-up of fuel it spilled into drinking water near the Delaware River.

California Officials Scrambled as Spring Wildfire Neared Former Nuclear Reactor Site, Emails Show

As the Sandy Fire approached the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in May, state and local officials had to move quickly to assess how safe the air was amid radiation concerns as the fire burned a quarter mile from the contaminated area.

Michigan Voters Just Sent a Resounding Message About Data Centers

With Federal Environmental Justice Programs Gutted, a Scholar Makes the Case for a More Confrontational Path

As Climate-Fueled Extreme Weather Spikes, Loneliness Can Be Life-Threatening

Corpus Christi Seeks to Block Referendum on Industrial Water Charge

What Candidates Have Planned for Virginia’s Coast Could Decide a Key Congressional Race

Permian Basin Community Seeks Fix for Radium in Its Drinking Water

US Senate Committee Advances Bill Exempting Montana Coal Company From Environmental Standards

NYC Wants to Use Thermal Energy to Cool Subway Stations

As Solar and Batteries Dominate in Texas, Republican Lawmakers Consider Natural Gas Minimums

Pennsylvania Confronts an Unfamiliar Climate Hazard: Wildfire Smoke

Alabama Seeks to Lower Gas Utility Profits for the First Time in 40 Years

In Florida, Being Poor Isn’t Enough to Qualify for the Best Water Aid

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Planet China: Beijing’s trillion-dollar development effort is reshaping the globe—and the natural world

The Mountain Watershed Association posted signs next to the Sewickley creek warning about Hazardous waste from the Max Environmental landfill. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Tracking the gas industry’s radioactive waste

Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on March 22, 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Cashing Out: The secretive system disrupting climate action and forcing big payouts to fossil fuel companies

Science

State of the Climate: A Dimming, Overheated Planet, With Degraded Oceans

A new American Meteorological Society report paints a grim picture of the global climate.

By Bob Berwyn

Wildfire Smoke Is Now a Bigger Prenatal Threat Than Human Sources of Air Pollution

Revealing Europe’s Most Critical Wetlands

A man cools off during a heat wave in Rome on July 1, 2025. Credit: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images

Politics

As US Offshore Wind Disappears, a Generation of Workers Is Left Behind

Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust. Now, U.S. workers mourn the well-paying careers they don’t see coming back.

By Ajani Stella

Philadelphia Juggles Short-Term Budget Plans and Long-Term Climate Goals

FEMA Downsizing Exacerbates Longstanding Problems, Imperils Disaster Response, Federal Watchdog Says

Workers gather at the State Pier in New London, Conn., on Aug. 25, 2025, to discuss the Trump administration’s order to halt construction of the offshore wind project called Revolution Wind. Credit: Tyler Russell/Connecticut Public via Getty Images

Justice & Health

A Very American Invention, Pushed to an Extreme

In Nebraska, Blackshirt Feeders LP is building the country’s largest feedlot for 200,000 beef cattle on a square-mile slab of concrete.

By Georgina Gustin

Massive Wildfires Test the Limits of International Cooperation

A Minnesota Dairy Company’s Rapid Expansion Is Prompting Lawsuits Against Regulators

An aerial view of confinement lots at Blackshirt Feeders in Dundy County, Nebraska. Credit: Sonya Doctorian/Inside Climate News

Fossil Fuels

Natural Gas Dominates PJM’s First Reformed Grid Queue, Driven by Data-Center Demand

Gas makes up nearly half of the 200-plus gigawatts lined up for a grid-connection study. But PJM’s own record shows most projects that enter its queue never get built.

By Aman Azhar

More Data Centers Will Mean More Fracking in Pennsylvania. These Advocates Want Better Protections.

The Coming Out Party for the Country’s Largest Gas Power Plant (Serving the Largest Data Center) Was Surprisingly Quiet

The natural gas-fired Linden Cogeneration Plant in Linden, N.J. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images

Clean Energy

China’s EV Problem: What Happens When Millions of Batteries Die?

Across the country, many retired electric vehicle batteries are processed by uncertified recyclers, creating environmental and worker safety risks.

By Andrew Liu

More Countries Are Factoring Fairness Into the Clean Energy Transition

Data Center Forecasts Keep Climbing and So Does Public Opposition. Something Has to Give.

Workers at an EV battery recycling plant on May 16, 2023, in Weinan, China. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

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Neighbors Live in Fear After Pipeline Leak in ‘Unleashing American Energy’ Era

As Trump’s agencies shrink, narrow their role and reduce enforcement, politically connected Energy Transfer is steering a slow clean-up of fuel it spilled into drinking water near the Delaware River.

By Marianne Lavelle

Sharks on a Plane

To overcome functional extinction in Indonesian waters, global aquariums are airlifting zebra sharks back to the Pacific.

By Johnny Sturgeon

California Officials Scrambled as Spring Wildfire Neared Former Nuclear Reactor Site, Emails Show

As the Sandy Fire approached the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in May, state and local officials had to move quickly to assess how safe the air was amid radiation concerns as the fire burned a quarter mile from the contaminated area.

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

Michigan Voters Just Sent a Resounding Message About Data Centers

By Tom Perkins

With Federal Environmental Justice Programs Gutted, a Scholar Makes the Case for a More Confrontational Path

By Kate Waxman

As Climate-Fueled Extreme Weather Spikes, Loneliness Can Be Life-Threatening

By Kiley Price

Corpus Christi Seeks to Block Referendum on Industrial Water Charge

By Dylan Baddour

What Candidates Have Planned for Virginia’s Coast Could Decide a Key Congressional Race

By Avril Silva

Permian Basin Community Seeks Fix for Radium in Its Drinking Water

By Martha Pskowski

US Senate Committee Advances Bill Exempting Montana Coal Company From Environmental Standards

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

NYC Wants to Use Thermal Energy to Cool Subway Stations

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As Solar and Batteries Dominate in Texas, Republican Lawmakers Consider Natural Gas Minimums

By Arcelia Martin

Pennsylvania Confronts an Unfamiliar Climate Hazard: Wildfire Smoke

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Alabama Seeks to Lower Gas Utility Profits for the First Time in 40 Years

By Dennis Pillion

In Florida, Being Poor Isn’t Enough to Qualify for the Best Water Aid

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