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Holding industries that profit from greenhouse gas emissions accountable for actions that hinder solutions to the climate crisis their products are responsible for causing. 

A view of the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Mich. Credit: Consumers Energy

What Is an Energy Emergency? The Trump Administration Says It Alone Decides.

By Marianne Lavelle

Aerial view of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cumberland Fossil Plant in Cumberland City, Tenn. White emissions billow from stacks at the plant.

The Tennessee Valley Authority Produced a Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks. Top Researchers Call it ‘Dishonest.’ 

By Dennis Pillion

Environmental advocates join state legislators and health care professionals to urge the passage of the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act on Monday in Albany, N.Y. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

New York Plastics Law Advances Amid Debate Over ‘Chemical Recycling’

By Lauren Dalban

A crew works to plug an orphaned well in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge of Oklahoma.

Plugging Away at the Millions of Derelict Oil and Gas Wells in the US

Story and photos by J. Matt

Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline are seen at the construction site near Wauburn, Minn., on June 5, 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

A New Enbridge Pipeline Spurs Opposition in Central North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg

Emissions spew from a large stack at the coal fired Brandon Shores Power Plant, on March 9, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Mark Wilson via Getty Images

As PJM Reopens Interconnection Queue, Experts Warn Damage to Maryland’s Clean Energy Plans Is Already Done

By Aman Azhar

A Los Angeles gas station on April 30, 2026. Californians are reckoning with surging gas prices—the highest nationwide according to data from the motor club, AAA. Gasoline prices have surged as the war in Iran continues. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Drivers Are Paying a More Than $6 a Gallon Price for the War in Iran

By Steven Rodas

Officials and local workers pose for photos following the ceremonial groundbreaking for SoftBank’s PORTS Technology Campus near Piketon, Ohio. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

A Massive, Trump-Backed Power Plant May Be Too Big to Succeed

By Dan Gearino

An oil tanker navigates the Strait of Hormuz on April 28. Credit: Asghar Besharati/Getty Images

How Oil Fuels Conflict and War—and Who Profits

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

An LNG tanker from the United States unloads at a terminal near Athens, Greece, on Dec. 27, 2025. Credit: Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Trump Pushes ‘Peace Pipelines’ to Boost Exports of Climate-Busting LNG to Europe

By Dennis Pillion

A substation at the coal-fired Naughton power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Wyoming’s Largest Utility Joins a New Western Day Ahead Market for Electricity

By Jake Bolster

Plumes of smoke rise over oil depot tanks hit by a joint Israel-U.S. attack on March 8 in Tehran, Iran. Credit: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images

As Energy, War and Climate Collide, a Conference in Colombia Charts a Path Beyond Fossil Fuels

By Bob Berwyn

A view of Dry Fork, one of the nation’s newest coal-fired power plants, in Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Western Lawmakers Move To Weaken Clean Air Act and Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits

By Jake Bolster

A bottom trawling boat is seen at sea. Credit: Open Seas/National Geographic Pristine Seas

Europe’s Trawlers Extract a Huge ‘Cost to Society’ in Bycatch and Carbon Dioxide

By Johnny Sturgeon

Chairman Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) speaks during a House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing on April 22 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Fossil-Fuel Funded GOP Leaders Claim a Renowned Scientific Institution Has ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’

By Liza Gross

A panel announces the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels during the COP30 in Belém, Brazil, on Nov. 21, 2025. Credit: First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels

As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit

By Bob Berwyn

Water pooling is seen on Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas. Credit: Courtesy of Schuyler Wight

An Oilfield Leak Springs Under a Permian Basin Baptist Church

By Martha Pskowski

Misty Cheng looks at flood damage to her home in Wrightwood, Calif., on Dec. 25, 2025. Credit: Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

As Climate Disasters Create an Insurance Crisis, a California Bill Seeks to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay

By Steven Rodas

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