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Smoke rises from the derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4, 2023. Credit: Dustin Franz/AFP via Getty Images

Accidents Involving Toxic Vinyl Chloride Are Commonplace, a New Report Finds

By Kiley Bense

Sharon Wilson of Oilfield Witness sets up her Optical Gas Imaging camera outside a ONEOK compressor station near the Waha Hub in Pecos County, Texas on March 16. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

When Natural Gas Prices Cool, Flares Burn in the Permian Basin

By Martha Pskowski

The SEC's new rule requires for the first time that companies disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The Politics Behind the SEC’s New Climate Disclosure Rule—and What It Means for Investors

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) recently introduced a bill to encourage companies that operate low-producing oil wells near frontline communities to clean them up or pay a penalty. Credit: Lara Aburamadan/Survival Media Agency

California’s Climate Leaders Vow to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies to Account

By Liza Gross

Biologist Sandra Steingraber, an anti-fracking activist with Concerned Health Professionals of New York, speaks during a March 5 rally at the New York State Capitol in Albany. Credit: Food & Water Watch

New York State Legislature Votes to Ban CO2 Fracking, Closing a Decade-Old Loophole in State Law

By Keerti Gopal

Natural gas is flared off during an oil-drilling operation in the Permian Basin in Stanton, Texas. A new study examined flaring and venting during oil and gas production. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Flaring and Venting at Industrial Plants Causes Roughly Two Premature Deaths Each Day, a New Study Finds

By Victoria St. Martin

Ricky Jordan inspects an abandoned well with a temporary cap in the backyard of a home on March 8, 2023 in Oil City, La. Credit: Cooper Neill/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Companies Are Poised to Inject Millions of Tons of Carbon Underground. Will It Stay Put?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Steam rises from a petroleum processing tower at an oil refinery near Salt Lake City, Utah. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine

By Liza Gross

Clairton Coke Works is one of the world’s largest producers of coke, which leads to the emission of a raft of chemicals. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy

By Kiley Bense, Victoria St. Martin

After 36 hours inside the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the activist was charged with four misdemeanors and released on a $3,500 bail.

To Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a Young Activist Spends 36 Hours Inside it

By Keerti Gopal

MethaneSAT launched via SpaceX's Transporter-10 on March 4. Credit: SpaceX

Q&A: What’s So Special About a New ‘Eye in the Sky’ to Track Methane Emissions

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

The home that exploded in Adger is one of dozens that Oak Grove Mine operators say could be impacted by subsidence. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

A ‘Gassy’ Alabama Coal Mine Was Expanding Under a Family’s Home. After an Explosion, Two Were Left Critically Injured

By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers

Louisiana and Mississippi have the highest rates of low birth weight and preterm birth in the country, and new evidence suggests industrial pollution could play a role. Credit: Getty Images

Louisiana’s Toxic Air Is Linked to Low-Weight and Pre-Term Births

Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, a $10 billion plastics plant built by ExxonMobil and SABIC, started operations this year on 1,300 acres of previously undeveloped land in San Patricio County, across the bay from Corpus Christi, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Gulf Coast Petrochemical Buildout Draws Billions in Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations

By Dylan Baddour

MIT students project a climate clock onto the university's Green Building, the tallest in Cambridge. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

MIT’s Sloan School Launches Ambitious Climate Center to Aid Policymakers

By Phil McKenna

On Feb. 27, About 100 people marched from the New York Public Library’s flagship location in midtown Manhattan to the headquarters of three insurance companies. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

‘Insure Our Future:’ A Global Movement Says the Insurance Industry Could Be the Key to Ending Fossil Fuels

By Keerti Gopal

Formosa Plastic Corp's complex on Lavaca Bay in Point Comfort, Texas, pictured on June 7, 2023. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

New Lake Will Fuel Petrochemical Expansion on Texas Coast

By Dylan Baddour

A network of insulated pipes that carry liquified natural gas from ships to giant storage tanks at Sempra Energy's Costa Azul LNG terminal located about 50 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Credit: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

LNG Exports From Mexico in Limbo While Pipeline Project Plows Ahead

By Martha Pskowski

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