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Indiana’s project could help to electrify long-haul trucks that require significantly larger batteries due to their size. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

A Highway in Indiana Could One Day Charge Your EV While You’re Driving It

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Oglala Sioux Tribe could use old wells with elevated levels of arsenic to combat future wildfires. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images and Grist

Water From Arsenic-Laced Wells Could Protect the Pine Ridge Reservation From Wildfires

By Taylar Dawn Stagner, Grist

A National Wildlife Federation diver inspects Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline at the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac. Credit: National Wildlife Federation video screenshot

Biden Administration Slams Enbridge for Ongoing Trespass on Bad River Reservation But Says Pipeline Treaty With Canada Must Be Honored

By Phil McKenna

Construction on the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line is nearly complete, but a legal challenge has stopped work on the final two two miles in Iowa. Pictured is a different portion of the line when it was still being built. Credit: American Transmission Co.

A Power Line Debate Pits Environmental Allies Against Each Other in the Upper Midwest

By Dan Gearino

Abigail Barten (right), trail coordinator, pours and filters raw maple syrup into a tank for collection on March 16, 2023, at Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: Geoff Stellfox/The Gazette

Midwest Maple Syrup Producers Adapt to Record Warm Winter, Uncertainty as Climate Changes

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch and Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette/Wisconsin Watch

A fast-moving wildfire burned more than 1,000 acres this month near Wendell, Minnesota, about 150 miles northwest of the Twin Cities. Much of the Midwest has been under red flag warnings this spring following a record hot and dry winter that officials say has dramatically increased the threat of wildfires in the region. Credit: Courtesy of Fergus Falls Fire Department

From Michigan to Nebraska, Midwest States Face an Early Wildfire Season

By Kristoffer Tigue

Terry Berg, who has been selling cars at Cornerstone Ford since 1987, leads a customer through the showroom at the Elk River dealership. He drives an EV and likes selling them, but finds a lot of his clients are reluctant to make the leap. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

How Two Top Car Salesmen Pitch EVs, One in Trump Country and One on Biden’s Turf

By Dan Gearino

This sensor, made by Heimdall Power, helps the operator of a power line know how much more power can be sent through the line. The eight-pound ball is photographed in Norway. Credit: Heimdall Power

Grid-Enhancing ‘Magic Balls’ to Get a Major Test in Minnesota

By Dan Gearino

The Minnesota Energy Infrastructure Permitting Act could streamline the regulatory approval process for clean energy projects. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Minnesota Eyes Permitting Reform for Clean Energy Amid Gridlock in Congress

By Kristoffer Tigue

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

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