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Pennsylvanians Learn the Truth About Fracking Waste in Their Communities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brandy Deason, a climate justice coordinator for Air Alliance Houston concerned about pollution from chemical recycling of plastic waste, prepares a bag of plastic waste packed with an electronic tracker to see if it’s being recycled. Credit: Dwaine Scott/CBS News

Plans for ‘Advanced’ Plastic Recycling Crumple Under Scrutiny

By James Bruggers, Investigative Reporter

Oil and gas lawyer Sarah Stogner picks up a salt crystal left over from produced water that spewed from a geyser at an orphaned well. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texans Gain Access to Vital Wastewater Spill Data

Martha Pskowski, Texas Reporter

Aerial photo taken on Nov. 21, 2019 shows a night view of a factory of Petrochina Liaoyang Petrochemical Company in Liaoyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. Credit: Yang Qing/Xinhua via Getty Images

Polluting Nylon Plants Clean Up Their Acts

By Phil McKenna, Investigative Reporter

Max Midstream’s Seahawk oil terminal stands across Lavaca Bay from a jetty at Lighthouse Beach in Port Lavaca on June 7, 2023. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Texas Regulators Caught Applying a Nonexistent Rule That Favored Polluters

By Dylan Baddour, Texas Reporter

Exxon's Richard Werthamer (right) and Edward Garvey (left) are aboard the company's Esso Atlantic tanker working on a project to measure the carbon dioxide levels in the ocean and atmosphere. The project ran from 1979 to 1982. Credit: Courtesy of Richard Werthamer

The Impact of ‘Exxon Knew’ Smoking-Gun Documents Endures

By David Sassoon, Founder & Publisher

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