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Entrance to the Johnson Run mining operation. Credit: Dani Kington

An Ohio Strip Mine’s Mineral Rights Are Under Unusual New Ownership

By Dani Kington and Keri Johnson, Athens County Independent
Smoke blankets the City of Chicago as a result of wildfires in Canada. Credit: Aydali Campa

Prepare for More Smoky Summers in the Midwest and Northeast

By Aydali Campa
An EV charger stands in the parking lot of St. Paul and the Redeemer Church on Oct. 19, 2021 in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Credit: Taylor Glascock for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Illinois Advances Access to Chargers to Meet EV Goals 

By Aydali Campa
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
Steve Turcotte, president and one of the founders of Los Charros Foundation, looks down on his cattle ranch property in the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness in Winkelman, Arizona, on May 8, 2023. Photo by Emma Peterson for Inside Climate News

Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life

By Emma Peterson
A man fishing from the pier at Edgewater Park. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Bracing for Climate Impacts on Lake Erie, the Walleye Capital of the World

By Kathiann M. Kowalski
Esmeralda Hernández, de 46 años, posa cerca de su casa en La Villita. Se opone a un plan para ampliar la autopista Stevenson cerca de su casa.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Vecinos de La Villita temen que empeore la contaminación ambiental por los planes de ampliación de la autopista I-55

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
Esmeralda Hernandez, 46, poses for a portrait near her home in Little Village. She is alarmed by a plan to expand lanes of an expressway near her community on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Plans for I-55 Expansion in Chicago Raise Concerns Over Air Quality and Community Health

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
Activists protest and rally against a General Iron plant being relocated to the Southeast Side of Chicago, near Lori Lightfoot's home in Logan Square, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Credit: Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Chicago, HUD Settle Environmental Racism Case as Lori Lightfoot Leaves Office

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
An image of Conesville Power Plant from animation drawn by Michael Schmidt.

Mourning, and Celebration: A Funeral for a Coal-Fired Power Plant

By Dan Gearino
Tractor-trailers move along an interstate frontage road Jan. 13, 2004 in Hampshire, Illinois. Credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images

In the Crossroads State of Illinois, Nearly 2 Million People Live Near Warehouses Shrouded by Truck Pollution

By Al Lewis
Workers install windows in a townhome complex under construction on May 15, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Launches Long-Awaited Job-Training Programs in the Clean Energy and Construction Sectors

By Aydali Campa
Hundreds of Illinoisans gather at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, urging lawmakers to support a set of environmental bills on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Credit: Brian Urbaszewski

Activists Rally at Illinois Capitol, Urging Lawmakers to Pass 9 Climate and Environmental Bills

By Aydali Campa

Chicago’s Little Village Residents Fight for Better City Oversight of Industrial Corridors

By Aydali Campa
Construction at the Double Black Diamond solar project in southeast Sangamon County on March 20, 2023 near Virden, Illinois. Photo Courtesy of Rich Saal/Swift Current Energy of Boston

Look Out, California: One of the Country’s Largest Solar Arrays is Taking Shape in… Illinois?

By Dan Gearino
Clockwise from top left: Amy Green covers climate and the environment in Florida. Wyatt Myskow is a Roy Howard Fellow and Mountain West correspondent based in Phoenix. Aydali Campa recently joined ICN’s Midwest network, covering environmental justice throughout the region from Chicago. Aman Azhar covers environmental justice with a focus on Baltimore and Maryland. Martha Pskowski lives in El Paso and covers climate and the environment in Texas along with Dylan Baddour, based in Austin.

Amy Green Joins Inside Climate News to Cover Florida; Regional and Local Networks Expand in the Southeast, Midwest, Texas and Mountain West

By ICN Editors
Randy DeBaillie walks toward his solar panels at his farm in Orion, Illinois on Feb. 3, 2019. Credit: Youngrae Kim for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Illinois Put a Stop to Local Governments’ Ability to Kill Solar and Wind Projects. Will Other Midwestern States Follow?

By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa
The POET Bioprocessing, a processing plant that produces ethanol in Menlo, Iowa on April 12, 2022. Navigator partnered with ethanol plants across the Midwest to collect, transport and store 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through a proposed carbon pipeline project. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Navigator’s Proposed Carbon Pipeline Struggles to Gain Support in Illinois

By Aydali Campa

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