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A view of an urban solar farm in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Shine On: Illinois Hopes to Continue Solar Boom Despite Federal Headwinds

By Douglas J. Guth

An emergency order last week blocked the retirement of the coal-fired J.H. Campbell Complex in Michigan. Credit: Consumers Energy

Trump Hastens ‘Drumbeat’ of Deferred Coal Plant Retirements

By Marianne Lavelle, Carrie Klein

Exterior construction was just about complete at the LG Energy Solution-Honda joint venture battery plant in October 2024 near Jeffersonville, Ohio. Credit: Honda

What Does the ‘Big Beautiful’ Debate Tell Us About the Politics of the IRA?

By Dan Gearino

Traffic on Interstate 90 drives by the shuttered Belvidere Assembly Plant in Belvidere, Ill. The United Auto Workers announced in April that Stellantis would not go forward with a battery plant it planned to add to the giant facility. Credit: Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

Clean Energy Project Cancellations Top $14 Billion So Far in 2025

By Marianne Lavelle

A person walks their dog at Warminster Community Park located on the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster site in Bucks County, Pa. Former military bases in the area are linked to contaminated drinking water, affecting tens of thousands of residents in Bucks and Montgomery Counties in Eastern Pennsylvania. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Michigan Lawmakers Aim to Revisit ‘Polluter Pay’ to Enforce Cleanup of Toxic Sites

By Douglas J. Guth

A view of the Marathon Petroleum Refinery in Detroit. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Michigan Researcher’s Work on Air Pollution and Racial Inequities Caught in Funding Freeze at National Science Foundation

By Siri Chilukuri

The coal-fired River Rouge power plant in Michigan was retired in 2021. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

From Blight to Bright: Michigan Explores Solar Power on Brownfield Sites

By Douglas J. Guth

A pipeline marker is seen at the site of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 near the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Credit: Tony Webster/CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Citing Trump Emergency Order, Army Corps Expedites Review for Line 5 Oil Pipeline in Great Lakes’ Wetlands

By Carrie Klein

Invasive Asian carp leap out of the Illinois River in Bath, Ill. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images

Illinois Delays a Project Meant to Keep Asian Carp Out of the Great Lakes

By Susan Cosier

Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics/Getty Images via Grist

Trump’s Latest USDA Cuts Undermine His Plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’

By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist

A solar array in Blaine, Minn. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Community Solar Plays Defense in Minnesota

By Dan Gearino

An Air Tractor sprays pesticides on a farm in Whittemore, Iowa. Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Bayer Bill’ Granting Legal Protections to Pesticide Companies Fizzles Out in the Iowa Legislature Again

By Anika Jane Beamer

Boxes of solar panels await installation at a solar farm construction site on June 24, 2024, in Albion, Mich. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A New Michigan Law Countering Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Is Triggering More of the Same

By Douglas J. Guth

Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline. Credit: Lily Carey

Artificial Reefs Can Mitigate Coastal Erosion in the Great Lakes. Will Cities Agree to Adopt Them?

By Lily Carey

A farmer plants corn using a Case IH tractor and 16-row planter assisted by an on board computer that monitors and controls seed and fertilizer application. Credit: Andrew Sacks/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

American Farmers and the USDA Had Finally Embraced Their Role in the Climate Crisis. Then Came the Federal Funding Freeze

By Georgina Gustin

Ohio faced its most severe drought in a century in 2024. Credit: Seth Herald/NurPhoto via Getty Images

After Severe Drought and Storms, Ohio Farmers Fear for Long-Term Soil Health

By Anika Jane Beamer

A freeze in a federal loan program affects nonprofits across the country, including one in Fort Wayne, Ind., where David de Leon is construction manager. His organization works to restore old houses for use by low-income families. Credit: Rachel Von Art/Inside Climate News

How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino

The core module of China’s first small modular nuclear reactor is seen on July 13, 2023, before shipment to the construction site at the Changjiang nuclear power plant. Credit: Liu Xuan/VCG via Getty Images

Nation’s First Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Could Come to Michigan in 2030

By Carrie Klein

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