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James Bruggers, Who Brought Passion and Kindness to Environmental Reporting, Dies at 68

Bruggers was known to colleagues as a dogged reporter and a generous coworker, and to sources as an honest watchdog.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Yvonne Sorovacu (right), Hannah Hohman (center) and Jay Beal monitor a creek for signs of contamination from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

Pennsylvanians Learn the Truth About Fracking Waste in Their Communities

By Kiley Bense

The Central Florida Zoo announced on April 29 that Bandit, a sloth transferred from Sloth World, had died. Credit: Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens

Sloth Deaths Investigation Triggers Swift Response in Florida

By Katie Surma and Kiley Price, Inside Climate News Reporters

A pipe discharges liquid waste from Tesla’s lithium refinery plant into a ditch on Feb. 13 in Robstown, Texas. Credit: Steve Ray/Nueces County Drainage District No. 2

A Drainage Ditch and Tesla’s Lithium Refinery Reveal Texas’ Permissive Permitting for Industrial Wastewaters

By Arcelia Martin, Texas Reporter

Caitlin Kupar injects a cougar kitten with a chip similar to those used to identify pets while giving the cat a health assessment during a visit by the Olympic Cougar Project to the cougars’ den on the Olympic Peninsula in June 2023. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

Washington Wildlife Commissioners Enact Policy Reforms to Protect Cougars

By Liza Gross

Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on March 22, 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Series Reveals a Shadowy, Pro-Industry Corner of International Law

By Nicholas Kusnetz and Katie Surma

Steam rises from Alabama Power’s coal-fired Miller power pant in Adamsville. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Alabama Pushes for First Utility Rate Case in 45 Years

By Dennis Pillion, Alabama Reporter

Colton Wyatt speaks about the different types of piping at his home in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago on July 18. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Thousands of Chicagoans Use Lookup Tool for Lead Pipes

By Keerti Gopal, Health and Justice Reporter

Elida Castillo, an environmental organizer from San Patricio County, stands outside Exxon’s plastics plant near her family home in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

How Corpus Christi Had to Face Up to Its Water Crisis

By Dylan Baddour, Texas Reporter

The Rio Grande flows through Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico, where people rely on getting supplies from Texas. According to the Customs and Border Protection website, this area is slated for “smart wall” construction. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

National News Outlets Rely on Local Environmental Reporting

Waste and other materials are often stacked in side yards and near the street at homes with no trash can in Chickasaw, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama City Drops Charges for Residents Who Couldn’t Pay Garbage Bills

By Lee Hedgepeth, Alabama Reporter

New Lawsuit Claims ‘Catastrophic Impacts’ From Permian Basin Injection Wells

By Martha Pskowski

Trump’s Choice to Be Alabama’s Next Senator Finds an Odd Political Target: the Modern Gas Can

By Lee Hedgepeth

Texas’ Grid Holds Up During Winter Weather

By Arcelia Martin

A Town’s Opposition to Proposed Power Lines Sparks Discussion About the Cost of Texas’ Growth

By Arcelia Martin

What Trump Doesn’t Understand About Greenland

By Johnny Sturgeon

This Small Alabama Town Was Part of the Manhattan Project. Now It May Host a Hyperscale Data Center.

By Lee Hedgepeth

Virginia Attorney General Takes Steps to Rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Charles Paullin

Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence

By Dylan Baddour

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