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More Children Are Powering Their Own Wheels to School as Part of ‘Bike Buses’

School kids who ride in packs led by adults to school improve both their health and their grades, reduce traffic and pollution around schools and help cut climate-warming emissions.

By Tina Deines

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

In Washngton state, power lines carry electricity near Diablo Dam and the North Cascades National Park. The Trump administration says there is an emergency in the Pacific Northwest because of a shortage of electricity. Credit: David McNew/Newsmakers

Trump’s Energy Secretary Orders a Washington State Coal Plant to Remain Open

By Blaine Harden

Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting

By Kiley Price

A jogger makes their way across a snowy street after a winter storm hit Seattle on Feb. 13, 2021. Credit: David Ryder/Getty Images

Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates

By Dana Drugmand

Low clouds blanket Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state. Credit: Craig Tuttle/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Ted Bundy, Serial Killers and Lead Exposure: Exploring the Connection Between Neurotoxins and Violence

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard

By Marianne Lavelle

Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows

By Liza Gross

The construction site of a high-speed rail viaduct near Highway 43 south of Corcoran, Calif. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/Grist

Billions Spent, Miles To Go: The Story of California’s Failure To Build High-Speed Rail

By Benton Graham, Grist

California Teen Starts an Online Journal on the Power of Economics to Confront Climate Change

By Liza Gross

Glad Tidings’ founder, Bishop Jerry Macklin and one of the church’s new EV charging stations. Credit: Courtesy of Glad Tidings

A California Network of Black Churches Is Embracing Solar Energy, EV Charging

By Nicole J. Caruth

California Updates Pesticide Alert System

By Liza Gross

New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events

By Liza Gross

Birds fly near the Phillips 66 refinery in L.A.’s Wilmington neighborhood. The facility is slated to close by the end of the year. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under LA’s Soon-to-Close Refinery. Who’s Going to Clean It Up?

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results

By Dan Gearino

Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?

By Marianne Lavelle

Canyon Wildfire in Los Angeles Forces Thousands to Evacuate

By Keerti Gopal

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