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A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigator tested wastewater from Tesla’s Robstown lithium refinery on Feb. 12. Credit: Travis Prater/Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Independent Testing Where Tesla’s Lithium Refinery Discharges Wastewater Found Toxic Metals

By Arcelia Martin

Community members participate in a blessing ceremony of the Atrisco Acequia Madre in Albuquerque, N.M. Credit: Tina Deines/Inside Climate News

New Mexico’s Time-Honored Irrigation Canals Face Existential Threat

By Tina Deines

A Weisinger drilling crew makes a pilot hole at the City of Corpus Christi’s eastern wellfield, one of several emergency water projects in the region, on March 31. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Projects Emergency Water Restrictions in September for Large Industrial Users and 500,000 Customers

By Dylan Baddour

An aerial view of Elephant Butte Reservoir along the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, N.M., in August 2022. Credit: Mitch Tobin/The Water Desk

Facing Drought and Low Snowpack, Rio Grande States Expect a ‘Challenging’ Year

By Martha Pskowski

Yuvelis Morales Blanco stands next to Colombia’s Magdalena River. Credit: Christian EscobarMora for the Goldman Environmental Prize

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking

By Katie Surma

The Freepoint Eco-Systems chemical recycling plant near Hebron, Ohio, emits black smoke in July 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Shawn Jones

As a Plastic Waste Plant Violates Pollution Rules, Its Owner Makes the Case for a Second Location

By James Bruggers

Jackie Chesnutt props up a sign next to a leaking oil well operated by CORE Petro on her property near Knickerbocker, Texas, on Nov. 18, 2025.

Low-Producing Oil Wells in Texas Cause Headaches for Landowners

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

A farmer loads herbicide into a sprayer to be applied to a corn field near Rochelle, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Weighs Early Warning System For Pesticide Spraying Near Parks, Schools

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

People gather for the first Earth Day event in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Credit: Jack Rosen/Getty Images

The History of Earth Day—and Why It Still Matters

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Excavators work to remove debris in Waialua, Hawaii, after a flood hit Oahu on March 23. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Judge Dismisses Trump Administration’s Bid to Block Hawaii Climate Lawsuit

By Marianne Lavelle

An aerial view of urban sprawl nestled next to protected wetlands on the fringes of Everglades National Park in Miami Dade County, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Pollution Persists in the Florida Everglades Despite 40-Year Restoration Effort, Report Says

By Amy Green

Members of Faith Presbyterian Church in northeastern Baltimore came together to plant a 200-square-foot rain garden. Credit: William Curtis/Faith Presbyterian

To Battle Climate Change, a Baltimore Church Turns to Nature

By Tierra Stone

A wild male three-fingered sloth climbs a tree in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. Credit: Sam Trull

At ‘Sloth World’ in Florida, Wild Sloths Have Died by the Dozens

By Katie Surma, Kiley Price

A seagull takes flight near the construction of a Shell oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 2022. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Take Trump Administration’s ‘God Squad’ to Court

By Wyatt Myskow

Tony and Carra Harris at the Cherokee Garden outside Atlanta. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

The Cherokee Rose, Georgia’s State Flower, Actually Has Nothing to Do With the Cherokee People—or the State

By Ryan Krugman

“Lamentors” wear sackcloth and ash, mourning the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a landmark climate regulation rule, outside EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Rachel Podlishevsky

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

By Liza Gross

A view of the POET Bioprocessing ethanol plant in Jewell, Iowa. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Iowa Moves to Shield Farmers, Ethanol Plants, From Lawsuits Over Emissions

By Anika Jane Beamer, Georgina Gustin

A chemical fire continues to burn at the Intercontinental Terminals Co. on March 19, 2019, in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know.

By Liza Gross

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