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An injection well in Western Pennsylvania. Credit: FracTracker.org

Answers About Old Gas Sites Repurposed as Injection Wells for Fracking’s Toxic Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed

By Jake Bolster

Rosemary Penwarden is led away by police after gluing her hand to a road in New Zealand to stop traffic as part of a protest by Restore Passenger Rail in August 2023. Credit: Photo Courtesy Restore Passenger Rail

In New Zealand, Increasingly Severe Crackdowns on Environmental Protesters Fail to Deter Climate Activists

By Emma Ricketts

In Fridley, Minnesota, President Joe Biden in April visited the Cummins Power Generation Facility, the first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the United States. Electrolyzers use an electric current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen. Credit: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images.

Biden Announces Huge Hydrogen Investment. How Much Will It Help The Climate?

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Jon Hurdle

A truck filled with gas departs a newly completed gas well. The flare is burning because the infrastructure to transport the gas via pipelines was not yet complete. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

A Rural Pennsylvania Community Goes to Commonwealth Court, Trying to Stop a New Disposal Well for Toxic Fracking Wastewater

By Jake Bolster

A coal ash pond (center) located near the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River (foreground) at Alabama Power's Plant Miller (background) in western Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

The Danger Upstream: In Disposing Coal Ash, One of These States is Not Like the Others

By Lee Hedgepeth

Gathered for a Climate Convergence at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, climate activists on Monday stood behind melting ice sculptures to demand more climate action by Gov. Shapiro and state lawmakers. Credit: Jon Hurdle.

At a ‘Climate Convergence,’ Pennsylvania Environmental Activists Urge Gov. Shapiro and State Lawmakers to Do More to Curb Emissions

By Jon Hurdle

Food scraps in a GrowNYC collection bin await pick up by the DSNY. Credit: Jake Bolster

Why New York’s Curbside Composting Program Will Yield Hardly Any Compost

By Jake Bolster

Gov. Josh Shapiro drew the ire of many environmentalists when he appointed a 17-member working group on climate emissions reductions without revealing all of the names of panel members. Credit: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images.

Shapiro Advisors Endorse Emissions Curbs to Fight Climate Change but Don’t Embrace RGGI Membership

By Kiley Bense

As climate change brings record heat to U.S. cities and Baltimore residents try their best to stay cool, the state of Maryland works to meet its own ambitious emissions reduction goals to help counter the climate crisis. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images.

Why Maryland Is Struggling to Meet Its Own Aggressive Climate Goals

By Aman Azhar

Gulf Oil Spill Spreads

A Known Risk: How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere

By Terry L. Jones and Pam Radtke, Floodlight

Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

In Youngstown, Ohio, SOBE Thermal Energy Systems proposed using a zero or very low oxygen chemical process that would turn shredded tires into a gas that would be burned to produce steam for heating buildings. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Youngstown City Council Unanimously Votes Against an ‘Untested and Dangerous’ Tire Pyrolysis Plant

By James Bruggers

Kimberly Laskowsky sits in her living room in Marianna, Washington County, approximately 850 feet from EQT's Gahagan well pad.

‘It’s Just Too Close’: Pennsylvanians Who Live Near Fracking Suffer as Governments Fail to Buffer Homes

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

President Joe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in April 2023 as part of his administration's Investing in America tour in Fridley, Minnesota, focusing on infrastructure and clean energy jobs. Last year, Cummins announced Fridley would be the site of its first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the United States, a $10 million investment that's expected to create 100 new jobs. Electrolyzers use an electric current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen can be used as a clean power source to help decarbonize heavy-duty transportation and industrial processes. Credit: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images.

Midwesterners Lament Lack of Transparency as Coalition Seeks Federal Aid for Proposed Hydrogen Hub

By Grace van Deelen

Climate protesters block the doors to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday as an NYPD police officer with the strategic Response Group, which specializes in large demonstrations, crowd control, and major events, center, watches over the demonstrators and another officer arrests a protester, left. Credit: Keerti Gopal

More Than 100 Protesters Arrested in New York City While Calling on the Federal Reserve to End Fossil Fuel Financing

By Keerti Gopal

In Pennsylvania, 40 percent of the watersheds that provide water for natural gas fracking contain small streams, according to FracTracker. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

A Fracker in Pennsylvania Wants to Take 1.5 Million Gallons a Day From a Small, Biodiverse Creek. Should the State Approve a Permit?

By Jake Bolster

A coal-burning energy plant, as seen through cloud cover near Bismarck, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images.

Errors In a Federal Carbon Capture Analysis Are a Warning for Clean Energy Spending, Former Official Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Maya Etienne at the Little Calumet River Prairie and Wetlands Nature Preserve, in Gary, IN. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson

Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters

By Aydali Campa, Phil McKenna, Victoria St. Martin

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