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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. 

Existing transmission lines run through Goochland and Louisa counties. The support structures are similar to those that would be used for Valley Link. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Residents Wrangle Over Transmission Line Proposal for Rural Virginia

By Charles Paullin

Santa Paula resident Ethan Higbee walks the area where an oil spill took place six months earlier in Ventura County. He smells residue he worries is oil remains. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

By Steven Rodas

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a news conference on May 5 in Menands, N.Y. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

As Communities Warn of Health Risks, New York Will Weaken Its Landmark Climate Law

By Lauren Dalban

Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu attends an International Court of Justice session on July 23, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. Credit: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

U.N. General Assembly Embraces Court Opinion That Says Nations Have a Legal Obligation to Take Climate Action

By Dana Drugmand

Dairy cows at a farm in northern Germany on July 2, 2025. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Top Climate Scientists Accuse the Livestock Industry of Pushing Fuzzy Math to Downplay Its Climate Warming Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

An aerial view of the nearly 600-acre coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Ash Lawsuit Can Continue, Appeals Court Rules

By Dennis Pillion

Helicopters dump water to fight a wildfire on Feb. 7, 2019, near Nelson, New Zealand. Credit: Evan Barnes/Getty Images

New Zealand Moves to Ban Tort Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Damage

By Dana Drugmand

The campus of NextEra’s headquarters is seen on Monday in Juno Beach, Fla. Credit: Marco Bello/Getty Images

A Utility Mega-Merger Is All About Data Centers

By Dan Gearino, Amy Green, Charles Paullin

Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks during a campaign event on May 1 in Portland, Maine. Credit: Graeme Sloan/Getty Images

Platner’s Energy Plan Prioritizes Lowering Costs and Taking on Big Oil and the ‘Oligarchy’

By Nathaniel Eisen

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

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