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Residents in North Port St. Joe, Florida, had long been concerned that an export facility for liquified natural gas (LNG), like this one in Sabine Pass, Texas, would be built on the Gulf Coast in their community on the Florida Panhandle. But now Nopetro Energy says it had decided "many months ago" not to build the facility there. Credit: Getty Images.

After Litigation and Local Outcry, Energy Company Says It Will Not Move Forward with LNG Plant in Florida Panhandle

By Amy Green

The Birmingham XPress, the city's bus rapid transit line, opened last fall with the help of federal funding. The first bus route to break free of the city's old hub-and-spoke transit design, it quickly became Birmingham's most-used public transit option. Credit: Marianne Lavelle/Inside Climate News.

Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding

By Marianne Lavelle

The Yukon River empties into the Bering Sea at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. in Alaska. Composite image using LANDSAT 7 data. True Colour Satellite Image. Credit: Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Facing a Plunge in Salmon Numbers in the Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers, Alaskans Seek a Voice in Fishing Policy

By Emma Ricketts

Container ships siting off the coast of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, waiting to be unloaded. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Shipping Rule Backfires, Diverting Sulfur Emissions From the Air to the Ocean

By Lydia Larsen

In 2018, a smokestack on the site of then-ERP Coke, within the EPA's 35th Avenue Superfund site in north Birmingham, Alabama. The facility was sold in 2019 to the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, and is now called Bluestone Coke. The facility temporarily ceased operations in 2021, but still owes the Jefferson County Health Department almost $300,000 in fines and penalties for air pollution violations. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Reckoning in North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and Racism

By Vernon Loeb

In June 2021. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media in the Everglades in Miami. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)In June 2021. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media in the Everglades in Miami. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis Promised in 2018 That if Elected Governor, He Would Clean Up Florida’s Toxic Algae. The Algae Are Still Blooming

By Amy Green

Climate activists stand outside the European Parliament to demonstrate in support of the Nature Restoration Law. Credit: Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance via Getty Images

European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law

By Bob Berwyn

Activists in Lisbon pose holding signs during a rally against maritime mining at Luis de Camoes square. The protest against deep sea mining is an initiative of Portuguese environmental non-governmental organizations as a preview to the World Ocean Day, under the slogan "Join us to give voice to the deep sea," which denounces the use of heavy machinery that destroys marine ecosystems. Credit: Jorge Castellanos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

As an Obscure United Nations Gathering Deliberates the Fate of Deep-Sea Mining, the Tuna Industry Calls for a Halt

By Georgina Gustin

Downtown Oberlin, Ohio.

An Ohio College Town Wants to Lead on Fighting Climate Change. It Also Has a 1940s-Era, Diesel-Burning Power Plant

By Dan Gearino

The sun sets behind power transmission lines, part of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state's power grid. Credit: Nick Wagner/Xinhua via Getty Images.

As Texas Cranks Up the AC, Congested Transmission Lines Cause Renewable Power to Go to Waste

By Keaton Peters

A visitor carries an American flag at the Viola Liuzzo memorial on the side of U.S. Highway 80 in Lowndes County, Alabama, in March 2015. Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who was shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan while shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

Girl scares seagulls to flight on Lake Erie in Ohio. Credit: John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Federal Money Begins Flowing to Lake Erie for Projects With an Eye on Future Climate Impacts 

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

Costal mangrove forests in Everglades National Park. Credit: Federico Acevedo/National Park Service

In the Everglades, a Clash Portrayed as ‘Science vs. Politics’ Pits a Leading Scientist Against His Former Employer

By Amy Green

Glenn Youngkin speaks during an election-night rally at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles on Nov. 2, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

As Youngkin Tries to Pull Virginia Out of RGGI, Experts Warn of Looming Consequences for Low-Income Residents and Threatened Communities

By Jake Bolster

Children spray each other with water and cool off by playing in a fountain in Domino Park, Brooklyn during a heat wave on July 24, 2022. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Are Legally Acceptable Levels of Pollution Harming Children’s Brain Development?

By Jake Bolster

Polluting vehicles and the Baltimore skyline, from Federal Hill Park. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images.

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

By Aman Azhar

A worker moves newly-delivered pork to a wholesale butcher at Smithfield Market on Feb. 14, 2023 in London, England. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

International Lenders Continue Pouring Money Into Meat and Dairy, Despite Climate Promises

By Georgina Gustin

Daniel Ellsberg speaking to reporters during a recess in his federal trial in Los Angeles in May 1973. Ellsberg was accused of illegally copying and distributing the Pentagon Papers relating to the Vietnam war. A judge dismissed the charges. Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.

How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time

By David Sassoon

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