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On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City

Curtis Bay may be Baltimore’s most polluted community, surrounded by industrial facilities strangling the rowhouse neighborhood. The city now wants to close a local recreation center to make way for even more industry, continuing what activists say has been decades of environmental racism.

By Aman Azhar

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New York Activists Descend on the Hamptons to Protest the Super Rich Fueling the Climate Crisis

From the airport to a golf course, museum gala and private mansions, activists confronted the extreme wealth driving global warming, and the challenges facing grassroots organizations that stand up to billionaires.

By Keerti Gopal

A Proposed Gas Rate Hike in Chicago Sparks Debate Amid Shift to Renewable Energy

Peoples Gas is looking to raise its customers’ bills to pay for new gas pipe infrastructure across the city—and residents are pushing back.

By Aydali Campa

California and New York Could Miss Their 2030 Climate Targets. Could Permitting Reform Help?

Officials in both states recently expressed doubts over meeting ambitious mandates to reduce emissions and expand renewables, noting that permit and interconnection delays are a big hurdle.

By Kristoffer Tigue

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$File photo: A horizontal gas drilling rig in the Marcellus Shale outside Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Massive quantities of water, sand and chemicals, many exempt from regulation under the "Halliburton amendment," are pumped into the wells at high pressure as part of the fracking process. Credit: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images.$

‘Halliburton Loophole’ Allows Fracking Companies to Avoid Chemical Regulation

By Jon Hurdle

Labor and Environmental Groups Have Learned to Get Along. Here’s the Organization in the Middle

By Dan Gearino

This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change-Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space

By Juanita Gordon

Documents Reveal New Details about Pennsylvania Governor’s Secret Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Kiley Bense

Malaria Cases in Florida and Texas Raise Prospect of Greater Transmission in a Warmer Future

By Victoria St. Martin

The Far Right Has a ‘Battle Plan’ to Undo Climate Progress Should Trump Win in 2024

By Kristoffer Tigue

Miami is Used to Heat, but Not Like This

By Amy Green

Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet

By Bob Berwyn

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

Mike Huckabee’s “Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change” Shows the Changing Landscape of Climate Denial

Producers of climate misinformation are targeting kids and families, delivering an updated message that acknowledges global warming, but minimizes the influence of human emissions.

By Keerti Gopal

New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands

On the Coast of Greenland, Early Arctic Spring Has Been Replaced by Seasonal Extremes, New Research Shows

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee visits "The Story with Martha MacCallum" in the Fox News Channel Studios on September 17, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images

Politics & Policy

The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints

The policy has been denounced in lawsuits and petitions, but the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality denies that it exists.

By Dylan Baddour

Phoenix is Enduring its Hottest Month on Record, But Mitigations Could Make the City’s Heat Waves Less Unbearable

New Report Card Shows Where Ohio Needs to Catch up in Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A Citgo refinery fumes behind a home in Hillcrest, Corpus Christi. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Justice

Plagued by Floods and Kept in the Dark, a Black Alabama Community Turns to a Hometown Hero for Help

The historic Black neighborhood in Elba, Alabama, began flooding after the state widened nearby Highway 84. Prominent environmental justice activist Robert Bullard is investigating the connection.

By Kristoffer Tigue

Baltimore Won’t Expand a Program to Help Residents Clean up After Sewage Backups

This Summer’s Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a New Analysis Shows

Fossil Fuels

Trump’s Former Head of the EPA Has Been a Quiet Contributor to Virginia’s Exit From RGGI

Gov. Glenn Youngkin caused an uproar picking Andrew Wheeler as his natural resources secretary. Senate Democrats blocked Wheeler’s nomination, but now he oversees regulatory efforts and remains involved in environmental policy.

By Jake Bolster

The Financial Sector Is Failing to Estimate Climate Risk, Say Two Groups in the UK

After Litigation and Local Outcry, Energy Company Says It Will Not Move Forward with LNG Plant in Florida Panhandle

Andrew Wheeler arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington in March 2020, when he served as President Donald Trump's administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler currently is head of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's newly created Office of Regulatory Management. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Clean Energy

EV Sales Continue to Soar, But a Surge in Production Could Lead to a Glut for Some Models

Waiting lists may be a thing of the past for many EV models as automakers try to balance supply and demand. One positive outcome: lower sticker prices.

By Dan Gearino

South Korea Emerges As Key Partner for America’s Energy Transition

The Solar Industry Gained Jobs Last Year. But Are Those Good Jobs, and Could They Be Better?

Volkswagen ID.3 electric cars in a storage tower.

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Record-Breaking Rains in Chicago Underscore the Urgency of Flood Resiliency Projects, City Officials Say

By Aydali Campa

Climate Litigation Has Exploded, but Is it Making a Difference?

By Katie Surma

In an Ominous Sign for COP28, G20 Nations Once Again Failed to Reach a Deal to Phase Down Fossil Fuels

By Kristoffer Tigue

Carol Snyder of Northwood, Ohio holds up a jar with water collected from Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4, 2014 in Oregon, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio area residents were once again able to drink tap water after a two-day ban due to algae-related toxins.

Funding Poised to Dry Up for Water Projects in Ohio and Other States if Proposed Budget Cuts Become Law

Kathiann M. Kowalski

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