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Power lines and power generating windmills rise above the rural landscape on June 13, 2018 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021

By Dan Gearino

This rendering shows a proposed nuclear power plant by X-energy that would produce electricity from four helium gas-cooled reactors. Courtesy of X-energy

This Next-Generation Nuclear Power Plant Is Pitched for Washington State. Can it ‘Change the World’?

By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times

Nuclear Energy Industry Angles for Bigger Role in Washington State and US as Climate Change Accelerates

By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times

Fracking fluid and other drilling wastes are dumped into an unlined pit located right up against the Petroleum Highway in Kern County, California. Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross

A firefighting helicopter flies past smoke plumes after making a water drop during the Dixie Fire on Aug. 18, 2021 near Susanville, California. Credit: Patrick T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images

Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke

By Alison Saldanha, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells and Aaron Glantz

Farmworkers harvest cucumbers at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California. Credit: Liza Gross

Farming Without a Net

By Liza Gross

Yohanny Cespedes interacts with her daughter as she prepares breakfast on a gas stove on Sept. 12, 2019 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Credit: Angela Rowlings/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Which State Will Be the First to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings?

By Dan Gearino

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross

Emergency response personnel work at the scene of a derailed train carrying crude oil on Dec. 22, 2020 in Custer, Washington. Credit: David Ryder/Getty Images

An Oil Industry Hub in Washington State Bans New Fossil Fuel Development

By Marianne Lavelle

he Link River Dam helps hold water for irrigation in Upper Klamath Lake. Credit: Anne Marshall-Chalmers

‘There Are No Winners Here’: Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Water birds fly over the Sacrameno-San Joaquin River Delta, which boasts a diversity of flora and fauna that thrive in wetlands about the size of Orange County. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Delta in Distress

By Liza Gross

A farmworker wears a face mask while harvesting curly mustard in a field on Feb. 10, 2021 in Ventura County, California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

For Farmworkers, Heat Too Often Means Needless Death

By Liza Gross

Forests of the Living Dead

By Liza Gross

Residents gather in a public cooling shelter set up at the Oregon Convention Center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Austun Wilde rests with her two dogs at a cooling center in the Oregon Convention Center on June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

A bee pollinates a flower on an almond tree in Dixon, California, on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California’s Almond Trees Rely on Honey Bees and Wild Pollinators, but a Lack of Good Habitat is Making Their Job Harder

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Sheep graze in a dry field near the town of McFarland in California's Central Valley, August 24, 2016. The Central Valley is the state's agriculture hub producing vast quantities of fruits, vegetables, nuts as well as dairy, beef and lamb but struggled through five years of the last drought. Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

California’s Relentless Droughts Strain Farming Towns

By Liza Gross

A helicopter sprays insecticide on a field outside of El Centro, California in the Imperial Valley on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images

In California’s Farm Country, Climate Change Is Likely to Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways

By Liza Gross

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