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Entrance to the Johnson Run mining operation. Credit: Dani Kington

An Ohio Strip Mine’s Mineral Rights Are Under Unusual New Ownership

By Dani Kington and Keri Johnson, Athens County Independent

Plaintiff Mica Kantor, 14, testifies on the second day of the trial. He shared that he felt like a "prisoner in his own home" when he contracted Covid during an outbreak of wildfire smoke and was forced to stay in his basement alone. He suffers from asthma and must stay indoors when the air quality is poor. Credit: Richard Forbes

In a Montana Courtroom, Debate Over Whether States Can Make a Difference on Climate Change, and if They Have a Responsibility to Try

By Richard Forbes

Emergency Room Visits and 911 Calls for Heat Illness Spike During Texas Heat Wave

By Martha Pskowski, Gina Jiménez

‘Profit Over the Public’s Health’: Study Details Efforts by Makers of Forever Chemicals to Hide Their Harms

By Victoria St. Martin

Greenville, Mississippi, Mayor Heather McTeer attends Women's Campaign Fund Hosts 32nd Annual Parties of Your Choice Gala on April 2, 2012 in New York City. Credit: Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Women's Campaign Fund

Q&A: Heather McTeer Toney Reflects on the Ongoing Struggle for Environmental Justice in America

Maryland Urged to Cut Emissions By Swiftly Adopting Rules Electrifying Cars and Trucks

By Aman Azhar

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

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