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Suicide Watch Incidents in Louisiana Prisons Spike by Nearly a Third on Extreme Heat Days, a New Study Finds

By Gina Jiménez

Limestone canyons line the lower Pecos River near its confluence with the Rio Grande. The Pecos flows from New Mexico into the Permian Basin in Texas before eventually flowing into the Amistad Reservoir at the Rio Grande. The river has been discussed as a potential target for produced water discharges. Credit: Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images.

Standards Still Murky for Disposing Oilfield Wastewater in Texas Rivers

By Martha Pskowski

A home in Calvert, Pa., with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Fracking Linked to Increased Cases of Lymphoma in Pennsylvania Children, Study Finds

By Jon Hurdle

President Joe Biden shakes hands with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (L) after signing the Inflation Reduction Act on Aug. 16, 2022, with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) in the State Dining Room of the White House. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Behind the Scenes in the Senate, This Scientist Never Gave Up on Passing the Inflation Reduction Act. Now He’s Come Home to Minnesota

By Dan Gearino

The smokestacks of Dow and other petrochemical plants dominate the skyline in the lower Brazos River watershed around Freeport, Texas. Credit: Meridith Kohut for The Texas Observer.

Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated

By Delger Erdenesanaa, the Texas Observer

When a Coke Plant Closed in Pittsburgh, Cardiovascular ER Visits Plunged

By Gina Jiménez

In Brighton, Colorado, a lab at Global Thermostats' commercial-scale direct air carbon capture facility. The facility pulls in air and collects carbon dioxide to store or to use for industrial purposes to help address climate change. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images.

Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Climate Solution?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A Growing Movement Looks to End Oil Drilling in the Amazon

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Shell chemical plant

Inside Pennsylvania’s Monitoring of the Shell Petrochemical Complex

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Inundation and Injustice: Flooding Presents a Formidable Threat to the Great Lakes Region

By Kari Lydersen, Ensia

SOBE Energy Solutions' site for its proposed tire pyrolysis chemical plant that would make synthetic gas to burn and produce steam for heating and cooling some downtown Youngstown, Ohio, buildings. Marketed as a green solution to waste and energy problems, critics view it as a source of unwanted toxic air emissions and a fire or explosion risk next to a large jail, student housing and other buildings. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

In Youngstown, a Downtown Tire Pyrolysis Plant Is Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’

By James Bruggers

Solar panels on Chicago's South Side.

A Proposed Gas Rate Hike in Chicago Sparks Debate Amid Shift to Renewable Energy

By Aydali Campa

File photo: A horizontal gas drilling rig in the Marcellus Shale outside Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Massive quantities of water, sand and chemicals, many exempt from regulation under the "Halliburton amendment," are pumped into the wells at high pressure as part of the fracking process. Credit: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images.

‘Halliburton Loophole’ Allows Fracking Companies to Avoid Chemical Regulation

By Jon Hurdle

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has convened a working group representing Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industries, labor unions and environmental organizations to secretly consider membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Documents Reveal New Details about Pennsylvania Governor’s Secret Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Kiley Bense

A Citgo refinery fumes behind a home in Hillcrest, Corpus Christi. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints

By Dylan Baddour

In a file photo, a sign reads "Heat Alert" and warns drivers and pedestrians about excessive heat in Chicago. Credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images.

New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands

By Aydali Campa

Andrew Wheeler arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington in March 2020, when he served as President Donald Trump's administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler currently is head of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's newly created Office of Regulatory Management. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Trump’s Former Head of the EPA Has Been a Quiet Contributor to Virginia’s Exit From RGGI

By Jake Bolster

A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023. Swaths of the United States home to more than 80 million people were under heat warnings or advisories, as relentless, record-breaking temperatures continued to bake western and southern states. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images.

This Summer’s Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a New Analysis Shows

By Bob Berwyn

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