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An aerial view of traffic on a smoggy day in Los Angeles in January 1985. Credit: Ernst Haas/Getty Images

Republicans Flout Law and Precedent to Kill California’s Right to Clean Air

By Liza Gross

A blanket of smog covers downtown Los Angeles as seen from Mulholland Drive in 1984. Credit: UCLA Library, Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ignoring Federal Law, House GOP Targets California’s Nation-Leading Vehicle Pollution Rules

By Liza Gross

In Mount Storm, West Virginia, turbines from the Mount Storm Wind Farm stand in the distance behind the Dominion Mount Storm coal power station, which last week was granted an exemption from new pollution rules by the Trump administration. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Dominion Among Utilities Allowed Exemption for Coal Emissions From Trump’s EPA

By Charles Paullin

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is seen before President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol on March 4. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection

By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

An aerial view of flood damage wrought by Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River on Oct. 3, 2024 in Asheville, N.C. There were 27 confirmed weather and climate disasters last year with losses exceeding $1 billion in the United States. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Trump, EPA Aim to Remove Finding That Mandates Action on Greenhouse Gas Pollution

By Marianne Lavelle

A view of the ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Federal Appeals Court Upholds $14.25 Million Fine Against Exxon for Pollution in Texas

By Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune

The sun sets behind the mountains at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, shrouded in smoke from regional wildfires on July 14, 2021. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

With Wyoming’s Regional Haze Plan ‘Partially Rejected,’ Conservationists Await Agency’s Final Proposal

By Jake Bolster

The Supreme Court is seen on Feb. 21 in Washington, as the court hears arguments challenging the Biden administration's effort to reduce air pollution using the Clean Air Act. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act Targeted CO2 as Climate Pollutant, Study Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Neighbors look at a car crushed by a large tree in the wake of Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Baltimore Judge Tosses Climate Case, Hands Win to Big Oil

By Aman Azhar

The Supreme Court is seen on June 26 in Washington. Credit: Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images

Supreme Court Overturns Chevron Doctrine: What it Means for Climate Change Policy

By Marianne Lavelle

Rusty Bell, director of Gillette College’s Office of Economic Transformation, and Justin Loyka, energy program director with the Nature Conservancy in Wyoming, discuss potential solar sighting on coal mines near Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Mining the Sun: Some in the Wyoming Epicenter of the Coal Industry Hope to Sustain Its Economy With Renewables

By Jake Bolster

Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivers remarks to the media following the adjournment of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly on March 14 in Richmond, Va. Credit: Minh Connors/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Youngkin Pledges to Decouple Virginia from California Vehicle Emissions Standards by End of 2024

By Sarah Vogelsong

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

One World Trade Center in New York City is obscured amid poor air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires as planes sit on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 8, 2023 in New Jersey. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

More Than a Third of All Americans Live in Communities with ‘Hazardous’ Air, Lung Association Finds

By Victoria St. Martin

Beef cattle are gathered in pens at the JBS Beef Plant in Greeley, Colo. The New York State Attorney General recently filed a lawsuit against JBS, the world’s largest beef company. Credit: Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images

As Legal Challenges Against the Fossil Fuel Industry Notch Some Successes, Are Livestock Companies the Next Target?

By Georgina Gustin

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

Hazel Chandler is part of a largely unrecognized contingent of the climate movement in the United States: the climate grannies. Credit: Caitlin O’Hara/The 19th

These Are the Climate Grannies. They’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Protect Their Grandchildren

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

The GAF roofing shingles factory in West Dallas on Dec. 13. The factory reclassified itself as minor and averted public participation requirements in 2022. Credit: Shelby Tauber/Inside Climate News

‘Major’ Problem in Texas: How Big Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It

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

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