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Robert Taylor stands outside his home, which is about a mile from the nation’s only chloroprene rubber plant, in Reserve, La. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts

By Victoria St. Martin

Smoke from wildfires in Canada creates a dangerous haze as the air quality index reaches 160 in New York City on June 30, 2023. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Air Pollution Could Potentially Exacerbate Menopause Symptoms, Study Says

By Gina Jiménez

The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania takes ethane and heats it to extremely high temperatures, “cracking” the molecular bonds holding it together to form ethylene and polyethylene pellets called nurdles. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor

By Kiley Bense

Walter Moorer observes fumes emitted from the Hosea Weaver asphalt plant near Chin Street in the historic Black community of Africatown. Credit: Patrick Darrington/Inside Climate News

Black Residents Want This Company Gone. Will Alabama’s Environmental Agency Approve a New Permit?

By Patrick Darrington

House of Delegates members gather during the Maryland General Assembly opening session on Jan. 10 in Annapolis, Md. Credit: Mark Gail/The Washington Post

In Final Push to Get Climate Legislation Passed, Advocates Call for Bold Legislative Actions 

By Aman Azhar

Clairton Coke Works is one of the world’s largest producers of coke, which leads to the emission of a raft of chemicals. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy

By Kiley Bense, Victoria St. Martin

Louisiana and Mississippi have the highest rates of low birth weight and preterm birth in the country, and new evidence suggests industrial pollution could play a role. Credit: Getty Images

Louisiana’s Toxic Air Is Linked to Low-Weight and Pre-Term Births

Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Trucks equipped with special containers that can hold up to 25 tons of garbage dump into the tipping hall of the Covanta Energy Montgomery County incinerator in Dickerson, Md. Credit: Robb Hill/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Maryland Lawmakers Remain Uncommitted to Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration, Prompting Advocate Concern

By Aman Azhar

This photo illustration depicts a tobacco hawkmoth navigating to a flower amid air fouled by vehicle exhaust emissions. Credit: Floris Van Breugel/University of Washington

New Research Shows Emissions From Cars and Power Plants Can Hinder Insects’ Search for the Plants They Pollinate

By Moriah McDonald

A coke storage area is seen as steam rises from the quench towers at the Clairton Coke Works on Jan. 21, 2020, in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

In a Steel Town Outside Pittsburgh, an Old Fight Over Air Quality Drags On

By Kiley Bense

A house in the Hillcrest neighborhood in Corpus on Feb. 7, 2022. Houses in this neighborhood have co-existed with oil refineries like Flint Hills that spew air pollutants for decades. Credit: Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Tribune

Companies in Texas Exploit ‘Loopholes,’ Attribute 1 Million Pounds of Air Pollution to Recent Freezing Weather

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune

A tar sands mining operation near Fort McKay, Alberta. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

Canada’s Tar Sands Are a Much Larger Source of Air Pollution Than Previously Thought, Study Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The sun sets over an unpermitted surface mining operation in Winston County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Alabama, What Does It Take to Shut Down a Surface Mine Operating Without Permits?

By Lee Hedgepeth

Participants walk in the Blue Zone on Wednesday during the COP28 climate conference in Dubai. Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

At COP28, a Growing Sense of Alarm Over the Harms of Air Pollution

By Victoria St. Martin

Max Midstream’s Seahawk oil terminal at the Port of Calhoun County seen on Wednesday June 7, 2023. Credit: Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Texas Court Strikes Down Air Pollution Permit for Gulf Coast Oil Terminal

By Dylan Baddour

Maya Etienne at the Little Calumet River Prairie and Wetlands Nature Preserve, in Gary, IN. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson

Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters

By Aydali Campa, Phil McKenna, Victoria St. Martin

The Shell plastics plant on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mark Dixon, Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Q&A: What to Do About Pollution From a Vast New Shell Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

Children spray each other with water and cool off by playing in a fountain in Domino Park, Brooklyn during a heat wave on July 24, 2022. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Are Legally Acceptable Levels of Pollution Harming Children’s Brain Development?

By Jake Bolster

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