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Carbon dioxide pipelines transport CO2 captured from ethanol processing plants like this one in Menlo, Iowa. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Just How Much Money Do CO2 Pipeline Companies Stand to Make From the Inflation Reduction Act?

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Kristoffer Tigue

A cluster of wind turbines near Wilton, N.D. Credit: Dan Koeck/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Understanding the Weather Behind a Down Year for Wind Energy

By Dan Gearino

The Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs located on the Bad River Reservation. Credit: Richard Schultz/Courtesy of 50 Eggs Films

Enbridge Wants Line 5 Shutdown Order Overturned on Tribal Land in Northern Wisconsin

By Phil McKenna, Noel Lyn Smith

A skier makes their way through the trails at the Korkki Nordic Ski Center near Duluth, Minn. Credit: Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Warm Winter Threatens Recreation Revenue in the Upper Midwest

By Kristoffer Tigue

Andrea Bowers, Rights of Nature I, 2022, neon. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News.

Fighting for a Foothold in American Law, the Rights of Nature Movement Finds New Possibilities in a Change of Venue: the Arts

By Katie Surma

Hotel Verdant in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. Credit: Hotel Verdant/Charlestowne Hotels

A Boutique Hotel Helps Explain the Benefits of Businesses and Government Teaming Up to Conserve Energy

By Dan Gearino

A solar power facility in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Green Energy Justice Cooperative Selected to Develop Solar Projects for Low Income, BIPOC Communities in Illinois

By Lydia Larsen

A Minnesota Utility Is Swapping Coal for Solar. It’s Like Taking 780,000 Cars Off the Road

By Kristoffer Tigue

The proposed site of SOBE Thermal Energy Systems' tire pyrolysis chemical plant in Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

A volunteer firefighter and first responder drives a fire truck in the city of Lawler, located in Iowa's Chickasaw County. Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing to build a carbon dioxide pipeline through Chickasaw County, within just a few miles of the city limits. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

EVs and $9,000 Air Tanks: Iowa First Responders Fear the Dangers—and Costs—of CO2 Pipelines

By Kristoffer Tigue

The charging equipment at the Pilot Travel Center near London, Ohio is part of a partnership between General Motors, Pilot Company and EVgo. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

We Went to the First EV Charging Station Funded by the Federal Infrastructure Law

By Dan Gearino

Ohio Sen. Jerry Cirino speaks at a news conference in March 2023 about his bill that would regulate higher education. Credit: The Ohio Senate

Ohio Fails to Pass Restrictions on College Teaching About Climate Policies

By Dan Gearino

Gretchen Whitmer

Why Michigan’s Clean Energy Bill Is a Really Big Deal

By Dan Gearino

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks to the press on an inundated I-94 in Detroit after a weekend of heavy rains.

Michigan Poised to Join States Requiring 100 Percent Clean Electricity

By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa

Environmental activists march during the Global Climate Strike in downtown Chicago, Illinois, on September 15, 2023. Local groups across the United States are gathering to call for an end to the era of fossil fuels.

Q&A: How Chicago’s Chief Sustainability Officer, a Southeast Side Native, Plans to Tackle Environmental Racism

By Aydali Campa

Downtown Cleveland

Cleveland Accelerates Its Ambitions for Hitting Net Zero Energy 

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at the Training Recreation Education Center to meet with residents in Newark, New Jersey, to highlight funding in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to remove and replace lead pipes, on February 11, 2022.

Chicago Environmental Activists Demand Faster Removal of Lead Water Pipes

By Aydali Campa

President Joe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in April 2023 as part of his administration's Investing in America tour in Fridley, Minnesota, focusing on infrastructure and clean energy jobs. Last year, Cummins announced Fridley would be the site of its first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the United States, a $10 million investment that's expected to create 100 new jobs. Electrolyzers use an electric current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen can be used as a clean power source to help decarbonize heavy-duty transportation and industrial processes. Credit: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images.

Midwesterners Lament Lack of Transparency as Coalition Seeks Federal Aid for Proposed Hydrogen Hub

By Grace van Deelen

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