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

Maya van Rossum has been the Delaware Riverkeeper for 30 years. As the river’s environmental guardian and the leader of the nonprofit Delaware Riverkeeper Network, van Rossum advocates for the health of the river and its ecosystem from New York to Delaware. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

Maya van Rossum Wants to Save the World

By Kiley Bense

Shiloh, Alabama residents lead environmental scientist Robert Bullard’s rapid response team on a tour of their flooded community. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Turned to Restrictive Deed Covenants to Ward Off Flooding Claims From Black Residents

By Lee Hedgepeth

Robert Taylor stands outside his home, which is about a mile from the nation’s only chloroprene rubber plant, in Reserve, La. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts

By Victoria St. Martin

Laurel Peltier, an energy justice advocate who volunteers at the local nonprofit Cares, goes over utility bills to determine if her client Henry Burlock was overcharged by a private energy company. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Twenty-Five Years After Maryland Deregulated Its Retail Energy Market, a Huge Win Looms For Energy Justice Advocates

By Aman Azhar

A view of the Barker Meadow Reservoir in Nederland, Colo. Currently, Nederland relies on water from the City of Boulder’s reservoir. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post

A Town Board in Colorado Repeals Rights of Nature Resolutions

By Katie Surma

Activists with the Richmond-based Rich City Rays gather in front of a tanker carrying liquified natural gas in San Francisco Bay. Credit: Brooke Anderson

Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay

By Liza Gross

A worker sweeps around a furnace at a coke plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on April 11. Credit: Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses

By Katie Surma

The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County was fined $10 million for air quality violations in May 2023. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Behind the Scenes: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County

By Kiley Price

Members of the Kenya Red Cross asses an area affected by floods while looking for residents trapped in their homes following torrential rain in Kitengela on May 1. Credit: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

Loss and Damage Meeting Shows Signs of Giving Developing Countries a Bigger Voice and Easier Access to Aid

By Bob Berwyn

Children play basketball beside an oil well pump jack and tank in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up

By Liza Gross

From left: Amelia Flores, Colorado River Indian Tribes chairwoman, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs approve the tribe’s authority to lease, exchange or store its portion of Colorado River water. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Historic Agreement with the Federal Government and Arizona Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land

By Noel Lyn Smith

INC-4 chairman Luis Vayas Valdivieso speaks during the fourth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution on April 23 in Ottawa, Canada. Credit: Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images

Headed Toward the Finish Line, Plastics Treaty Delegates ‘Work is Far From Over’

By James Bruggers

Smoke from wildfires in Canada creates a dangerous haze as the air quality index reaches 160 in New York City on June 30, 2023. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Air Pollution Could Potentially Exacerbate Menopause Symptoms, Study Says

By Gina Jiménez

Community organizer Andrea Vidaurre won the 2024 Goldman Prize for her role in persuading the California Air Resources Board to pass two historic transportation regulations limiting truck and rail emissions. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

California Community Organizer Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize

By Liza Gross

A New Federal Tool Could Help Cities Prepare for Scorching Summer Heat

By Kiley Price

Clara Riley stands among her relatives and neighbors in her Oak Grove home. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Mine Keeps Digging Under A Rural Community After Hundreds of Fines and a Fatal Explosion. Residents Are Rattled

By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers

Haida hereditary chief Gidansda (Guujaaw) leads a group of paddlers aboard Luu Taas (“Wave Eater”), a 15-meter red-cedar canoe designed by acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid for the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Carving and paddling cedar canoes is one example of how Haida people are inextricably linked to both land and sea. Credit: Courtesy of Guujaaw

In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back

By Serena Renner, Hakai Magazine

One World Trade Center in New York City is obscured amid poor air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires as planes sit on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 8, 2023 in New Jersey. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

More Than a Third of All Americans Live in Communities with ‘Hazardous’ Air, Lung Association Finds

By Victoria St. Martin

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