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

An aerial view of a Memphis neighborhood in Tennessee. Memphis residents pay more of their income on energy than the national average. Credit: Kevin Wurm/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In Tennessee, Climbing Utility Rates and More Than 140,000 Household Cut-Offs in 2023

By Jonmaesha Beltran

A view of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery after a massive fire triggered several large explosions at the complex in South Philadelphia on June 21, 2019. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

Five Years After Philadelphia Refinery’s Closure, Pollution Concerns Persist

By Jon Hurdle

Marisol Genao is smiling in her doorway of a brick end-unit rowhouse

These Brooklyn Homeowners Couldn’t Afford to Go Green. Then Help Arrived

By Samantha Maldonado, THE CITY

Commercial fishermen tong for oysters in Lower Mobile Bay, Ala. At the end of the 2024 season, approximately 25,000 sacks of oysters will have been harvested from the bay, totaling 2.1 million pounds. Credit: Billy Pope

In Mobile Bay, the Oysters’ Tale of Woe

By Lanier Isom

Demonstrators with GreenFaith gather as part of a global, multi-faith action called Faiths 4 Climate Justice outside of JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Manhattan on Sept. 14, 2023. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Grief, Hope, Joy: Faith in the Time of Climate Change

By Nina Dietz

Diane Wilson stands outside her home in Seadrift, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline

By Dylan Baddour

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, second from the left, helped Pueblo of Jemez Gov. Peter Madalena, center, unveil a poster showing Valles Caldera National Preserve in north central New Mexico, during the event on December 22 celebrating the settlement upholding the pueblo’s entitlement to its ancestral land, including Banco Bonito, inside the national preserve. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

A Native American Community Regains Its Rights to Land in a New Mexico National Preserve

By Noel Lyn Smith

A view of homes along the Emory River near Kingston, Tennessee, following the TVA coal ash disaster in December 2008. Credit: Courtesy of Appalachian Voices/Dot Griffith with flight by Southwings

They Fell Sick After Cleaning Up a TVA Toxic Disaster. A New Book Details Their Legal Battle

By James Bruggers

Shop vendors protest a foreign consortium’s sharp increase in water rates in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on Feb. 5, 2000. The city’s water services were privatized in the late 1990s with encouragement from the World Bank. Credit: Gonzalo Espinoza/AFP via Getty Images

Nations Are Exiting a Secretive System That Protects Corporations. One Country’s Story Shows How Hard That Can Be

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Migrant workers pick strawberries during harvest on a farm south of San Francisco. Credit: Visions of America/Joe Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Wildland firefighters conduct a prescribed burn in the Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest near Pinecrest, Calif. Credit: Andrew Avitt/USDA Forest Service

US Forest Service Hiring Freeze Could Have Long-Term Impacts

By Zoë Rom

The Goodyear plant is pictured close up, with a white plume coming from a small exterior pipe

Computer Modeling Shows Carcinogen From Goodyear Plant Is Invading Niagara Falls Neighborhoods

By Jim Morris and Emyle Watkins

People make their way through heavy rain as streets begin to flood on June 12 in Miami Beach. The plaintiffs are all residents of the jurisdiction that the complaint points out is uniquely vulnerable to hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A Florida Commission Keeps Approving Utility Plans With Lots of Fossil Fuels. Now Young Adults Are Suing

By Amy Green

The judges of the International Court of Justice rise during a hearing to set a legal framework on how countries should tackle climate change in The Hague on Dec. 4. Credit: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/AFP via Getty Images

International Court of Justice Hears Climate Pleas Ahead of Issuing an Advisory Opinion

By Bob Berwyn

Emma Ireland and Charles Philip Laurie from Just Stop Oil pose with their supporters outside of the Royal Courts of Justice in London before their hearing on Oct. 22. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Shell Wins Injunctions Against UK Gas Station Protesters Amid Growing Threats to Activism

By Keerti Gopal

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has recorded high benzene emissions for nearly 20 years outside K-Solv, a barge-cleaning and chemical distribution facility in the southeastern corner of Channelview, Texas. Credit: Jeffersonn Castellanos/Univision45

Levels of Cancer-Causing Benzene Reached New Heights in Beleaguered Channelview. Regulators Never Told Residents

By Savanna Strott, Public Health Watch

A person walks past downed power lines as South Carolina residents deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Oct. 5 in Greenwood, S.C. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Hurricane Helene Killed 49 in South Carolina’s Upstate Region as Costs of Damage and Response Exceed $370 Million

By Emmy Ribero

A Blanco resident pulls a water sample from their contaminated well, to compare it to bottled water in 2020 near Austin. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Regulators Report More Than 250 New Cases of Groundwater Contamination

By Martha Pskowski

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