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Wood chips are stored for pellet production at a sawmill. Credit: Angelika Warmuth/picture alliance via Getty Images

As Financial Turmoil Threatens Plans for an Alabama Wood Pellet Plant, Advocates Question Its Climate and Community Benefits

By Lee Hedgepeth
Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020 and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2023. Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’

By Lee Hedgepeth
A sugar cane field burning near Canal Point, Florida. Credit: Photo Courtesy of Friends of The Everglades

In Florida, Gen Z Activists Step Into the Fight Against Sugarcane Burning

By Michelle Mairena and Kyndall Hubbard, Youthcast Media Group
Tree trunks in Bavaria stored for further processing in a sawmill, taken during an excursion along the value chain of a wood pellet.

Alabama Wood Pellet Mill Seeks Millions in Climate Funds, but Critics Say It Won’t Cut CO2

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com
Gulf Oil Spill Spreads

A Known Risk: How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere

By Terry L. Jones and Pam Radtke, Floodlight
The Nestor farm in Taylor County, where methane from a coal mine below is being vented in a tall white pipe next to the back porch. Mining dried up the farm's water well, which the Nestors used to water their cattle, a lawsuit claims. Credit: James Bruggers

Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families

By James Bruggers
Costal mangrove forests in Everglades National Park. Credit: Federico Acevedo/National Park Service

In the Everglades, a Clash Portrayed as ‘Science vs. Politics’ Pits a Leading Scientist Against His Former Employer

By Amy Green
The Stanton Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant, is seen in Orlando. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

EPA Proposes to Expand its Regulations on Dumps of Toxic Waste From Burning Coal

By James Bruggers, Amy Green
The sun sets June 5, 2003 over the Florida Everglades. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Climate Change Forces a Rethinking of Mammoth Everglades Restoration Plan

By Amy Green
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
In this aerial view, vehicles make their way through a flooded area after Hurricane Ian passed through on Sept. 29, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A New Report Is Out on Hurricane Ian’s Destructive Path. The Numbers Are Horrific

By Amy Green
Coal miners, their faces smeared with coal dust in a coal mine, in Cumberland, Kentucky, around 1945. Credit: Curtis Wainscott/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino
Gail LeBoeuf, a lifelong member of St. Michael Catholic Church in St. James Parish and co founder and co executive director of the group Inclusive Louisiana, was part of a delegation of Black elders from Louisiana to speak last summer before UNESCO. Credit: James Bruggers

Citing ‘Racial Cleansing,’ Louisiana ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Sue Over Zoning

By James Bruggers
Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

On the Frontlines in a ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black Women Inspired by Faith Are Powering the Environmental Justice Movement

By James Bruggers
Sea World employees prepare a sling for Corleone, a rehabilitated manatee, to be released to his original home at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida on Jan. 17, 2022. Credit: Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Nursing Florida’s Ailing Manatees Back to Health

By Amy Green, WMFE
A man tows a canoe through a flooded street of his neighborhood as a truck passes in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022, after Hurricane Ian slammed the area. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole Left Devastating Flooding in Central Florida. Will it Happen Again?

By Amy Green,  WMFE
A rescue team from the Jackson Fire Department assists people out of floodwaters downtown on July 28, 2022 in Jackson, Kentucky. Credit: Michael Swensen/Getty Images

Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation

By James Bruggers

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