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The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works distributes water in 2022 after E. coli bacteria was found in local drinking water. Baltimore is one of the cities awarded an environmental justice grant that the EPA plans to terminate. Among the grant's aims: water quality testing. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

EPA Funding Cuts Target Disadvantaged Communities, Analysis Shows

By Marianne Lavelle, Peter Aldhous

A view of a data center, one of several in Loudoun County, similar to the proposed project in Fairfax County. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

In the World’s Data Center Hotbed, How Close Is Too Close, and Who Should Pay?

By Charles Paullin

A view of the coal-fired Brandon Shores Power Plant in Baltimore. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Consumer Watchdog Accuses Regional Grid Operator of Overcharging Marylanders for Power

By Aman Azhar

Ruby Banta (center) and friends Nova Russell (left) and Colette Duvall (right) held a yard sale to benefit the spotted salamander via a local nonprofit, Friends of Shades Creek. Credit: Courtesy of the Banta family

For Alabama’s Spotted Salamanders, a Win and a Warning

By Lee Hedgepeth

EPA Head Pushes Mexico to Address Tijuana River Sewage in Recent San Diego Visit

By Kiley Price

A pipeline marker is seen at the site of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 near the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Credit: Tony Webster/CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Citing Trump Emergency Order, Army Corps Expedites Review for Line 5 Oil Pipeline in Great Lakes’ Wetlands

By Carrie Klein

Nearly half of the tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with toxic PFAS. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Says It Will Act on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Advocates Raise Red Flags

By Keerti Gopal

Mica Kantor, a 14-year-old plaintiff, testifies on the second day of the Held v. Montana trial in June 2023. Credit: Richard Forbes/Inside Climate News

In Montana, Republican State Legislators Fight Back After Successful Youth Climate Lawsuit

By Nick Mott

Silvana Nihua, a member of the Kiwaro community and former OWAP president, sits near a sacred waterfall in a Waorani community's territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. Credit: Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma

Margo Denke, co-founder of the group Friends of Hondo Canyon, surveys a stretch of Commissioners Creek on her ranch in Bandera County, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams

By Dylan Baddour

Laurene Allen won the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism with contaminated in her hometown of Merrimack, N.H. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

From left: Cindy Kobei, Aimee Roberson and Whitney Gravelle sit on a panel hosted by the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network during the United Nations Permanent Forum on April 22 in New York. Credit: Katherine Quaid/WECAN

‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations

By Lauren Dalban

The JBS meat processing plant in Plainwell, Mich. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

The World’s Biggest Meat Company Gets the Greenlight to Go Public on the New York Stock Exchange

By Georgina Gustin

Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics/Getty Images via Grist

Trump’s Latest USDA Cuts Undermine His Plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’

By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist

A hog farm in eastern North Carolina. Credit: Rick Dove

N.C. Farm Bureau Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Environmental Protections From Hog Farm Permits

By Lisa Sorg

A nonprofit helping farmers adopt sustaibable practices in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions is among the plaintiffs suing the Trump administration over its funding freeze. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Judge Asks Trump Administration for More Evidence That Funding Freeze Is Constitutional

By Amy Green

A Smokey Bear sign warns against wildfire in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Credit: Anna Mattson/Inside Climate News

New Jersey Cut Back on Prescribed Burns in the Pine Barrens—and Faces a Wildfire That Charred Thousands of Acres

By Anna Mattson

Carolyn Hindle, a student at Virginia Commonwealth University, leads a chant at an Earth Day rally on Tuesday in Richmond, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia College Students Want More Climate Action on Earth Day

By Charles Paullin

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