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Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

As Watts’ legal battle drags on, the Trump administration moves to delay a Biden-era rule designed to reform how farmers get paid.

Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

Staff at a state-run clinic serving wildfire survivors in Hawaii have waited months for permanent jobs. Instead, they got another temporary contract.

Florida Power & Light Profit Margins Top Other Utilities’ Nationwide, Report Says

Utility profit margins are one reason why electricity bills are rising, the report says. Advocates say low-income communities are hardest-hit by the costs.

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall

Which State Leads in Battery Energy Storage? It Depends on How You Measure.

Why Doesn’t Texas, the Leader of Onshore Wind Energy, Have Any Offshore?

Georgia’s New Public Service Commissioner Says She Will Put Affordability and Transparency First

Global Climate Panel Faces Strife, Potential Funding Crunch

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Talking the Talk on Data Center Regulations. But Will They Walk?

Judge Rules Alabama Power Can Keep Its Solar Fee, Among the Nation’s Highest

Legislation Aims to Protect Floridians From Data Center Costs, but Will It?

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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

The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

“Today, as in the beginning, life is still made out of carbon dioxide, and the world’s problems are made out of carbon dioxide as well.”

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

This Year’s US Wildfires Have Already Set Records That Could Foreshadow a Smoky, Fiery Summer

Scientists Discover a New Branch of Life in the Deep Sea

Homes and a hotel sit in front of a steel factory in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Credit: Michel Porro/Getty Images

Politics

The Trump Administration’s New Biofuels Targets Threaten Carbon-Rich Rainforests

The U.S. doesn’t have enough bio-based diesel to meet the administration’s new mandate, so blenders will have to import yet more foreign crop-based oils.

By Georgina Gustin

FEMA Skips National Hurricane Conference Amid DHS Shutdown

As Prices Soar, EPA Greenlights Higher Ethanol Blends in Gasoline

Soybeans are unloaded from a lorry at a biodiesel complex in Santa Fe, Argentina. Credit: Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images

Justice & Health

Looking to Jesus and Buddha, a Kentucky Passionist Priest Finds Hope Amid an Enveloping Global Environmental Crisis

Father Joe Mitchell works to create a “new story” that recognizes the interconnectedness of people and nature.

By James Bruggers

Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain

Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection

A statue of Jesus stands outside the Passionist monastery in Louisville, Ky. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

Fossil Fuels

Your ‘Widely Recyclable’ Starbucks Cup Is Still Trash

“Starbucks wants consumers to think that the cups are recyclable so that consumers will buy lots of them and feel good about themselves.”

Joseph Winters, Grist

Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

Two Wildly Different Data Centers Reveal a ‘Fork in the Road’ on How to Meet Electricity Demand

Clean Energy

New Jersey Turns to Big Batteries as Power Prices Rise

State regulators approved incentives for three projects totaling 355 megawatts, hoping storage can come online faster than other energy sources.

By Rambo Talabong

Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

Yes, Venezuela Has a Ton of Oil—But Its Biggest Opportunity Is Offshore Wind

Jupiter Power’s battery storage complex in Houston. The company was recently awarded incentives for a 200-megawatt project in Sayreville, N.J. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

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Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

As Watts’ legal battle drags on, the Trump administration moves to delay a Biden-era rule designed to reform how farmers get paid.

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Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

Staff at a state-run clinic serving wildfire survivors in Hawaii have waited months for permanent jobs. Instead, they got another temporary contract.

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Florida Power & Light Profit Margins Top Other Utilities’ Nationwide, Report Says

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Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

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After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling

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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Talking the Talk on Data Center Regulations. But Will They Walk?

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