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In Stone Ridge, Virginia, an Amazon Web Services data center in July 2024. Virginia is a PJM state, and Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

PJM Pursues Rule Change to Meet Data Center Surge. Critics Fear Gas Suppliers Could Benefit.

By Rambo Talabong

Air pollution pours from the Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1972, before many federal regulations of such emissions were implemented. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

EPA’s ‘Comeback’ a Sham Fueled by Trump’s Authoritarian Power Grab, Critics Charge

By Liza Gross

In Houston, a transmission tower in July, as ERCOT, the state's power grid, urged customers to preserve electricity. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Grid Operators and Regulators Iron Out New Rules for Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin

The United States Capitol building in Washington D.C., on Sept. 24, 2025. Credit: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images

Senate Nixes Management Plans for Public Lands, Expanding Access for Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Jackie Medcalf is looking at the camera with a serious expression, arms crossed. Behind her is the river.

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them.

By David Leffler

White plumes of smoke billow above U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants

By Jon Hurdle

A drilling rig is in Pennsylvania’s Greene County. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking

By Kiley Bense

Wind turbines operate adjacent to a highway near Whitewater, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

New Report Marks a Decade of Progress, Challenges on Global Decarbonization

By Bob Berwyn

A view of Formosa Plastics’ Point Comfort complex, near the site of Exxon’s planned plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant

By Dylan Baddour

A landscape of the landfill appears in the middle ground, a brownish-sandy color, with trees at either side.

Along the Banks of the Mon River, Fracking Waste in a Landfill Once Again Poses a Pollution Problem

By Reid Frazier

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (left) and Energy Secretary Chris Wright deliver remarks outside the White House on March 19 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires

By Aidan Hughes, Martha Pskowski

The remnants of a fatal home explosion above the Oak Grove mine in March 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office

Eighteen Months After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Rolls Back Its Commitment to Monitor Explosive Gases Above Coal Mines

By Lee Hedgepeth

Duke Energy plans to apply for a license extension for its nuclear plants, including Shearon Harris in southern Wake County. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In Its New Carbon Plan, Duke Energy Gambles on Coal as a Shorter-Term Fix for Powering Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg

A waste water tank truck drives through Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

Appeal Could Make It Easier for Companies to Spread Drilling Fluids on Pennsylvania Roadways

By Kyle Bagenstose

Transmission lines stand in front of Dominion Energy’s Chesterfield Power Station in Chesterfield, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Could Show How to Manage Data Center Growth. So Far, It’s a Case Study in Stalling Legislation

By Deep Vakil, Charles Paullin

A coal mine operates on leased public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry

By Jake Bolster

Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee at a Town Hall press conference in December 2024 announced the town is suing Duke Energy because it allegedly deceived the public about the validity of climate change. Credit: Town of Carrboro

Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate-Related Property Damage After Funding Denialist Campaigns?

By Lisa Sorg

A surface coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: BLM Wyoming

Bureau of Land Management to Sell Off Federal Coal Reserve Leases in Wyoming

By Arcelia Martin, Jake Bolster

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