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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 Bayou La Batre. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Children of the Storm

By Lee Hedgepeth

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump and his administration at the White House on Aug. 26 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

With Latest Round of Terminations, Trump Administration Continues Dismantling EPA’s Environmental Justice Portfolio

By Aman Azhar

Gina Ramirez, like many Chicago residents, has a lead service line at her home on the Southeast Side (address has been blurred). Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Chicago Has a Huge Lead Pipe Problem—and We Mapped It

By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, Amy Qin

Reporters Keerti Gopal (left) and Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco interview a Chicago resident at his home, which has a water service line made of lead. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times

How We Mapped Chicago’s Lead Pipe Problem and What We Learned

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Keerti Gopal, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, Amy Qin

Colton Wyatt shows off a lead water testing kit at his home in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Lead Pipes Are Everywhere in Chicago. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

By Sophia Kalakailo, City Bureau

An officer of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources takes part in an operation against Amazon deforestation at an illegal mining camp known in the Yanomami of Brazil on Feb. 24, 2023. Credit: Alan Chaves/AFP via Getty Images

How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers

By Katie Surma

The Des Moines River flows through downtown Ottumwa, Iowa. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill

By Anika Jane Beamer

The border wall is seen in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Steve Hillebrand/USFWS

Environmental Laws Waived to Build Border Wall in Texas Wildlife Refuge

By Martha Pskowski

The Colorado River flows near Parker, Ariz. The Colorado River Indian Tribes want to give the river the same legal rights as a person, taking millennia of cultural values and putting them into law. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Hydrocarbon storage tanks—like this one in the backyard of a home in Arvin, Calif., and next to a playground—pose a disproportionate health risk when they leak. In addition to the climate super-pollutant methane, they emit a cocktail of toxic gases, including the carcinogen benzene. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events

By Liza Gross

Jingjing Zhang meets with community members in Kalusale, Zambia. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable

By Katie Surma

Freshly cleaned oysters are seen in Nova Scotia’s Chance Harbour. Credit: Molly MacNaughton/IJB

Sewage Taints Canadian Oysters. Then Americans Eat Them

By Agatha Khishchenko, Andy Lehren, Dori Seeman, Robert Cribb and Molly MacNaughton

A health worker wears protective gear as they dispose of biohazard waste from a Nipah virus isolation center at a government hospital in India’s southern state of Kerala on Sept. 16, 2023. Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Likely to Expand the Range of an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries

By Chad Small

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava speaks to the media at the entrance to Alligator Alcatraz on Friday in Ochopee, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Citing Environmental Concerns, Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz to Wind Down Operations

By Amy Green

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is seen following an explosion at the Pennsylvania plant on Aug. 11. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

Amid Ongoing Pollution From Steel Plants, Trump EPA Urged to Drop Delay in Fenceline Monitoring Requirements

By Jon Hurdle

First responders rescue people from flooding in their homes on Aug. 10 after 13 inches of rain fell overnight in Wauwatosa, Wis. Credit: Andy Manis/Getty Images

15 Children in Wisconsin File the Latest Youth Lawsuit Citing Climate Dangers

By Dana Drugmand

The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pa., produces polyethylene, a type of single-use plastic, using ethane. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0

Pennsylvania Lured Shell to the State With a $1.65 Billion Tax Break. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant

By Kiley Bense

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro attends the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Colombia’s President Called Out an Alabama Company’s Coal Exports to Israel. Now Alabamians Are Protesting

By Lee Hedgepeth

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