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Commercial fishermen prepare to check their nets on Lake Superior in Bayfield, Wisconsin, on Feb. 23, 2021. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

How Climate Change Is Complicating a Beloved Midwest Pastime: Ice Fishing

By Kristoffer Tigue

Rusted barrels and cracked concrete are all that remain of the former Glidden Paint Plant in Reading, Pa. State funding has been allocated to remediate the site prior to a planned redevelopment. Credit: Daniel Propp/Inside Climate News

How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields

By Daniel Propp

Crews work before dawn to clear snow from the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a winter storm hits Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Another Polar Vortex Is Blasting the U.S. With Harsh Winter Weather. So How Is Climate Change Involved?

By Kristoffer Tigue

David Hester inspects damage to his house after Hurricane Helene made landfall on Sept. 28 in Horseshoe Beach, Fla. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A marker for the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is seen in Park Rapids, Minn. The pipeline runs from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

An Enbridge Oil Spill in Wisconsin Is Eroding Trust as the Fight Over Line 5 Continues

By Kristoffer Tigue

Alicia Carhart, Mississippi River vegetation specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, peers into a tall wild rice bed on the river in the summer of 2023. Credit: Alicia Carhart/Wisconsin DNR

Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A view of the coal-fired Milton R. Young Power Plant, the planned site for Project Tundra, near Beulah, N.D. Credit: Minnkota Power Cooperative

A Carbon Capture Project Faces a New Delay in a Year of Slow Progress for Coal Power Plants Looking for Retrofits

By Dan Gearino

A view of the Straits of Mackinac where Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline passes underneath in northern Michigan. Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

After Initial Permits Are Granted, Activists Worry About Impacts of Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute in Northern Wisconsin

By Lydia Larsen

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a news conference at the former U.S. Steel South Works site to discuss a massive quantum computing campus on Chicago’s South Side. Credit: Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo

As Illinois’ Governor Recruits Data Centers, Chicagoans’ Electricity Bills Are Getting More Expensive

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

Donald Trump speaks at Drake Enterprises, an auto parts manufacturer, during a campaign rally on Sept. 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Mich. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Trump’s ‘EV Mandate’ Message May Have Helped Him Win Michigan

By Kristoffer Tigue

An aerial view of the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit and Windsor, Canada. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

New Federal Funds Aim to Cut Carbon Emissions and Air Pollution From US Ports

By Kristoffer Tigue

California voters cast their ballots at the Joslyn Park voting center on Tuesday in Santa Monica. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate

By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow

Ag Pollution Is Keeping Des Moines Water Works Busy. Can It Keep Up?

By Nina Elkadi

An employee works on new Ford F-150 trucks as they go through the assembly line at the Ford Dearborn Plant on April 11 in Dearborn, Mich. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

Disadvantaged Communities Are Seeing a Boom in Clean Energy Manufacturing, but the Midwest Lags

By Kristoffer Tigue

Mary Mazzio (left) and Joe Grosso filming on location at the Bad River Reservation. Credit: Richard Schultz/Courtesy of 50 Eggs Films

‘Bad River,’ About a Tribe’s David vs. Goliath Pipeline Fight, Highlights the Power of Long-Term Thinking

By Victoria St. Martin, Phil McKenna

Chicago city code required homes to install lead pipes up until 1986, resulting in the city having approximately 400,000 lead service lines. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Gives Chicago Decades to Replace Lead Pipes, Leaving Communities at Risk

By Nina Elkadi

Effigy Mounds National Monument museum technician Sheila Oberreuter walks along coir logs in the Sny Magill Unit of the park along the Mississippi River near Clayton, Iowa. Credit: Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

On the Wisconsin-Iowa Border, the Mississippi River Is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds

By Madeline Heim and Frank Vaisvilas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

People walk through the hallways at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va., on May 9. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Data Center Fight Touches on a Big Question: Who Assumes the Financial Risk for the AI Boom?

By Dan Gearino

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