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Texas Cities Set Temperature Records in Unremitting Heat Wave

By Dylan Baddour

Michele Klimczak, the coastal debris coordinator for the Fishers Island Conservancy, sits in front of a day’s haul of garbage, nearly 150 lbs, collected over a few hours on a Fishers Island, New York beach. She weighs and records the trash she collects, the record of which is available to view on https://www.ficonservancy.org/

The ‘Sisyphus of Trash’ Struggles to Clean Relentless Waves of Plastic From a New York Island’s Beaches

By Devin Speak

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

Naomi Davis, an advocate with BlackChicago Water Council, a program of Blacks in Green, sits in the Green Living Room, the Headquarters for Blacks in Green located in the Woodlawn neighborhood, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Credit: Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

On Chicago’s South Side, Naomi Davis Planted the Seeds of Green Solutions to Help Black Communities

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times and Aydali Campa, Inside Climate News

Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises

By Georgina Gustin

Wildfire Haze Adds To New York’s Climate Change Planning Needs

By Juanita Gordon

Lead plaintiff Rikki Held on her family's ranch in southeastern Montana. Behind her, a wildfire burns four miles away. In Summer 2022, this was one of 18 wildfires within 50 miles of her home.

Love of the Land and Community Inspired the Montana Youths Whose Climate Lawsuit Against the State Goes to Court This Week

By Richard Forbes

The water crisis is maintained by an economic system that has made water bills and infrastructure exponentially more expensive; all while Black Americans’ trust in the water running through their homes has increasingly faltered. Credit: Adam Mahoney/Capital B

Record Investment Merely Scratches the Surface of Fixing Black America’s Water Crisis

By Adam Mahoney and Aallyah Wright, Capital B

Mining Critical to Renewable Energy Tied to Hundreds of Alleged Human Rights Abuses

By Katie Surma

This Texas Community Has Waited Decades for Running Water. Could Hydro-Panels Help?

By Martha Pskowski

Global Warming Fueled Both the Ongoing Floods and the Drought That Preceded Them in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna Region

By Bob Berwyn, Photography by Michele Lapini

Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life

By Emma Peterson

Vecinos de La Villita temen que empeore la contaminación ambiental por los planes de ampliación de la autopista I-55

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Plans for I-55 Expansion in Chicago Raise Concerns Over Air Quality and Community Health

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Tidal flooding fills streets in Norfolk, Virginia on Monday October 3, 2022. Credit: Jim Morrison for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Water, Water Everywhere, Yet Local U.S. Planners Are Lowballing Their Estimates

By Charlie Miller

Inglewood Oil Field in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Bill Would Hit Oil Companies With $1 Million Penalty for Health Impacts

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

Chicago, HUD Settle Environmental Racism Case as Lori Lightfoot Leaves Office

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

In the Florida Panhandle, a Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by a Proposed Liquified Natural Gas Plant

By Amy Green

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