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A residential grid-tied solar array in installed on a hillside in Malibu, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Noting a Mountain of Delays, California Lawmakers Advance Bills Designed to Speed Grid Connections

By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense
Activists at the COP27 climate talks last year in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, protesting the influence of the fossil fuel industry. Credit: Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News.

UN Adds New Disclosure Requirements For Upcoming COP28, Acknowledging the Toll of Corporate Lobbying

By Bob Berwyn

As the Colorado River Declines, Water Scarcity and the Hunt for New Sources Drive up  Rates

By Wyatt Myskow and Emma Peterson
Roundup, the world's top weedkiller: Credit: Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images.

Roundup Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in False Advertising Settlement

By Liza Gross
In a file photo, a Cargill facility on the Tapajos River in Santarem, a town on the trans-Amazonian highyway, in Brazil's Para state. Credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images.

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

By Georgina Gustin
In a file photo, a five-year-old child is treated in a New York City emergency room after an asthma attack. A week ago, the city experienced its highest number of asthma-related ER visits so far in 2023. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

ER Visits for Asthma in New York City Soared as Wildfire Smoke Blanketed the Region

By Gina Jiménez
Two 18-wheel tractor trailers carry fresh water to natural gas wells being fracked in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. After injection into the wells at high pressure, wastewater returns to the surface and is either recycled and used to frack other wells, stored above ground, or injected in storage wells below ground. The wastewater typically contains numerous toxic chemicals used in the fracking process as well as natural contaminants, such as arsenic, radium and salts. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

A Pennsylvania Community Wins a Reprieve on Toxic Fracking Wastewater

By Jon Hurdle
A pump jack sits idle above an oil well next to private homes in Bradford, Pennsylvania Aug. 14, 2008. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania Expects $400 Million in Infrastructure Funds to Begin Plugging Thousands of Abandoned Oil Wells

By Stacey Burling
Participants at the opening session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's conference in Bonn, Germany, on June 5. The conference, which runs through June 15, is laying the groundwork for the upcoming COP28 climate conference in Dubai in December. Credit: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images.

UN Considering Reforms to Limit Influence of Fossil Fuel Industry at Global Climate Talks

By Bob Berwyn
A farmer harvests corn on Oct. 22, 2015 near Burlington, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Department of Agriculture Conservation Programs Are Giving Millions to Farms That Worsen Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin
This clear-cutting in March in Hoosier National Forest, captured by drone, is taking place in Crawford County in southern Indiana, just south of an even larger project the Forest Service is planning in an area it calls Buffalo Springs. Photo courtesy of Robbie Heinrich

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

By Marianne Lavelle
Jay Schabel, president of the plastics division at Brightmark, holds waste plastic from what he described as medical hip replacement parts at the company's new chemical recycling plant in northeast Indiana at the end of July. The plant is designed to turn plastic waste into diesel fuel, naphtha, and wax. Credit: James Bruggers

EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling

By James Bruggers
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Committee hearing titled Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the Department of Energy, in Rayburn Building on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Federal Hydrogen Program Is Cutting Out Local Groups, Threatening Climate Goals, Advocates Say

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Aerial view of suburban development named in Chandler, Arizona, featuring lakes, lush golf courses, and water-guzzling lawns. Credit: Wild Horizon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Arizona Announces Phoenix Area Can’t Grow Further on Groundwater

By Wyatt Myskow
Keely Fisher, an Ohio State University graduate student, is one of many people on campus who fear the ramifications of a legislative proposal that seeks to regulate discussions of climate policy in higher education. Credit: Dan Gearino

Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies

By Dan Gearino
Along with DFL legislative leaders and his commissioners, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz threw a ceremonial budget bill-signing party on May 24, 2023 on the State Capitol steps. Credit: Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Minnesota Emerges as the Midwest’s Leader in the Clean Energy Transition

By Aydali Campa
Ghana's Betty Osei Bonsu, representing the Green Africa Youth Organization, a nongovernmental group, will be attending next week’s U.N. negotiating session to develop a legally binding treaty to curb plastic pollution. Credit: World Wildlife Fund.

On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’

By James Bruggers

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