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Minnesota Emerges as the Midwest’s Leader in the Clean Energy Transition

In its most recent legislative session, the state leapfrogged Illinois to become the regional front-runner in equitable clean energy transition efforts.

By Aydali Campa

Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies

“You can say gravity isn’t true, but if you step off the cliff, you’re going down,” says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about restrictions on teaching.

By Dan Gearino

Joe Rogan Is Fueling Climate Misinformation on TikTok, Watchdogs Warn

The actor-turned-podcaster recently touted the so-called “Adam and Eve” conspiracy theory to play down the climate crisis and criticize efforts to curb it. The clip has since gone viral.

By Kristoffer Tigue

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Angie Mestas, a schoolteacher, used a lifetime of savings to drill a drinking well on her land in Los Sauces, Colorado. But she won't drink from it until she tests for arsenic and E. coli, which are common in the area. Credit: Melissa Bailey for KFF Health News

As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Rises

By Melissa Bailey, KFF Health News

Harbor cranes and a wind turbine are seen as the sun sets in Bremerhaven in northern Germany, on Oct. 19, 2017. Credit: Patrik Stollarz/AFP via Getty Images

Hobbled by Bureaucracy, a German R&D Program Falls Short of Climate-Friendly Goals

By Evan Robinson-Johnson

How Dueling PDFs Explain a Fight Over the Future of the Grid

By Dan Gearino

SunZia Southwest Transmission Project Receives Final Federal Approval

By Emma Peterson

Global Warming Fueled Both the Ongoing Floods and the Drought That Preceded Them in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna Region

By Bob Berwyn, Photography by Michele Lapini

Robinallen Austin, a member of Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights, (POWHR) overlooks land in the distance where 42 diameter sections of steel pipe have not been buried of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, MVP, on Aug. 31, 2022 in Bent Mountain, Virginia. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmentalists in Virginia and West Virginia Regroup to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Eyeing a White House Protest

By Jake Bolster

On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’

By James Bruggers

Nick Liadis measures the fat stores of an ovenbird at the Twin Stupas banding site in Chicora, Butler County. Credit: Quinn Glabicki

Not Winging It: Birders Hope Hard Data Will Help Save the Species They Love—and the Ecosystems Birds Depend On

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Projects

A thermal image of SF6-containing electrical equipment at a Duke Energy substation. The image does not show any leaks. Credit: Phil McKenna

The Immortals: Greenhouse Gases That Live Forever

Something in the Water: Regulators Say Growing Crops With Oil Wastewater Is Safe, But Evidence Is Scant

A detail of the pilot carbon dioxide capture plant is pictured at Amager Bakke waste incinerator in Copenhagen on June 24, 2021. Credit: Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

Pipe Dreams: Is Carbon Capture a Climate Solution or a Dangerous Distraction?

Villager Caroline is seen in a withered maize crops field in Kidemu in Kilifi County, Kenya, March 23, 2022. Scattered on the five-acre farm in Bandari village, Kidemu sub-location in Kenya's coastal Kilifi County, were withered maize crops. Adam Ndamunga, an officer with Kenya National Drought Management Authority NDMA in Kilifi, said the drought situation in the region started in August 2021 and has been progressing due to inadequate rains. The United Nations relief agency said the Horn of Africa is experiencing one of its worst droughts in recent history, with more than 13 million people severely food insecure in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Credit: Dong Jianghui/Xinhua via Getty Images

Food Shocks: Climate Change and the Coming Famines

Signs opposing the solar project are plentiful all around Williamsport Ohio. July 12, 2022.

Solar Opposites: A Standoff Over Renewable Energy in Rural America

EPA On-Scene Coordinator Chuck Berry fixes a sign on a yard his team cleaned on English Avenue on May 12, 2022. Since 2019, the agency has been testing soil in the study area, which spans more than 600 acres, for lead. Credit: Aydali Campa

The Superfund Next Door: Toxins & Mistrust in Atlanta

Refuse bags full of materials for recycling in different colored plastic bags. Credit: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

Bag It: The Plastics Crisis

The Fifth Crime: The Campaign to Make “Ecocide” an International Crime

Gaslit: The Costs of Flaring and Venting Natural Gas by Fossil Fuel Companies

Noxious Neighbors: The Hidden Dangers of Heated Tanks Storing Asphalt and Other Heavy Fuels

A soy plantation in the Amazon rainforest near Santarém in the state of Pará, Brazil, on May 13, 2006. Credit: Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images

Sowing Risk: How Big Banks’ Investment in Agriculture Fuels the Climate Crisis.

Holger Kenda, on the far right, on his last day working in the mines, Dec. 21, 2018. It was a media event, with the ceremonial extraction of the last piece of hard coal from an underground mine in Germany. The end of subsidies for mining hard coal meant t

Power Switch: Lessons From Germany’s Energy Revolution

Hot Molecules: Low Hanging Super Greenhouse Gases

Warning signs are posted at the French Limited Superfund site. Credit: Spike Johnson

Superfund Super Threats: Toxic Sites at Climate Risk Near You

Anti-Scientists: A Contrarian Minority’s Suspect Work

California's deadliest wildfire on record swept through the down of Paradise in November. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

American Climate: The Future is Already Here

Fumes in South Portland: The Oil Storage Tanks Next Door

Dangers Without Borders: Is the Military Ready for Warming?

Harvesting Peril: Extreme Weather on the American Farm

Finding Middle Ground: Climate Conversations Across America

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Science

James Hansen Warns of a Short-Term Climate Shock Bringing 2 Degrees of Warming by 2050

The famed researcher publicly released a preliminary version of a paper-in-progress with grim predictions of short- and long-term warming, but not all climate scientists agree with its conclusions.

By Bob Berwyn

Bracing for Climate Impacts on Lake Erie, the Walleye Capital of the World

At Lake Powell, Record Low Water Levels Reveal an ‘Amazing Silver Lining’

Climatologist and NASA scientist James Hansen poses next to a mock grave stone declaring 'Climate change-a matter of life or death' outside the ruins of Coventry Cathedral on March 19, 2009 in Coventry, England. The symobolic head stone is the first stage of a climate change campaign action day. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Politics & Policy

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

EnLink Midstream’s Chickadee pipeline ruptured on March 29, 2023, causing one of the largest oil spills in the past decade in Texas. An incident report blames the massive spill on “incorrect operation.”

By Martha Pskowski

Supreme Court Sharply Limits the EPA’s Ability to Protect Wetlands

A US Non-Profit Aims to Reduce Emissions of a Super Climate Pollutant From Chemical Plants in China

In a 2018 file photo, workers in Midland, Texas, extracting oil from oil wells in the Permian Basin. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.

Justice

Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life

How the Los Charros Foundation is combating the diminishing ranching lifestyle in the shadow of Arizona’s decades-long drought.

By Emma Peterson

Vecinos de La Villita temen que empeore la contaminación ambiental por los planes de ampliación de la autopista I-55

Plans for I-55 Expansion in Chicago Raise Concerns Over Air Quality and Community Health

Steve Turcotte, president and one of the founders of Los Charros Foundation, looks down on his cattle ranch property in the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness in Winkelman, Arizona, on May 8, 2023. Photo by Emma Peterson for Inside Climate News

Fossil Fuels

Q&A: The ‘Perfect, Polite Protester’ Reflects on Her Sit-in to Stop a Gas Compressor Outside Boston

Andrea Honore sat outside then-Gov. Charlie Baker’s office for more than 200 days and only saw him once in an elevator. The compressor, in Weymouth, is now fully operational.

By Danish Bajwa

North Texas Suburb Approves New Fracking Zone Near Homes and Schools

Shell Agrees to Pay $10 Million After Permit Violations at its Giant New Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

Andrea Honore sits outside former Gov. Charlie Baker's office. Photo Courtesy of Andrea Honore

Clean Energy

Clean Energy Experts Are Stretched Too Thin

“Stakeholder fatigue” threatens to tap the brakes on policy progress as many states move fast on decarbonization.

By Dan Gearino

A New Battery Intended to Power Passenger Airplanes and EVs, Explained

As the Harms of Hydropower Dams Become Clearer, Some Activists Ask, ‘Is It Time to Remove Them?’

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, left, spoke during a press conference with cabinet members including Melissa Hoffer, right, the state's first climate chief. Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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What’s ‘Climate Colonialism?’ Typhoon Mawar’s Carnage in Guam Offers Insight

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Fifth of the World Could Live With Dangerous Heat by 2100, New Study Warns

By Kristoffer Tigue

Companies Object to Proposed SEC Rule Requiring Them to Track Emissions Up and Down Their Supply Chains

By Emma Ricketts

$A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on Dec. 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images$

Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell

By Liza Gross

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