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Residents dress in red to show their opposition to the proposed data center hold signs that read “Vote NO on the proposed data center in Bessemer.” Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Amid Community Opposition, Alabama Hyperscale Data Center Project Hits a Speed Bump

By Lee Hedgepeth

Local residents pack the Wilsonville City Council meeting on Monday to express opposition to a proposed data center project. Credit: Courtesy of Coosa Riverkeeper

Alabama Town’s Residents Seek Preemptive Strike Against Massive Data Center Project

By Dennis Pillion

A Canada goose swims in Lake Michigan next to the Chicago Area Confined Disposal Facility in Chicago’s Southeast Side. Credit: Christiana Freitag/Inside Climate News

A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won

By Christiana Freitag

Resolution Copper’s proposed mine near the site of Oak Flat in Arizona will eventually create a giant sinkhole on land sacred to the Western Apache people. Credit: Elias Butler

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land

By Wyatt Myskow

Thousands of activists take to the streets of New York City for the “March to End Fossil Fuels” on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements

By Ryan Krugman

Val Verde and Castaic residents call for the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to be closed during a protest in Castaic, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

The Tapanuli orangutan is threatened by a Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Credit: Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari and Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme

The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A vendor sells bottled water while shading himself with an umbrella at the exit of the Paso del Norte International Bridge during triple-digit temperatures in El Paso on Aug. 7.

El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

Ambulances respond to an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works on Monday in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: After Another Explosion at Clairton Coke Works, Advocates Call for Accountability

By Kiley Bense

Activists march across the Brooklyn Bridge to demand that Gov. Kathy Hochul stop the construction of the Williams pipeline in New York. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

New York Already Denied Permits to These Gas Pipelines. Under Trump, They Could Get Greenlit

By Deep Vakil

Waorani people protest against the oil tenders opened by the Ecuadorian Government on May 13 in Quito, Ecuador. Credit: Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South via Getty Images

US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports

By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, lead has been detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death

By Lisa Sorg

A man tries to cool off with fire hydrant water in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan as extreme heat blankets New York City on July 25. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer

By Lauren Dalban

Ben Jealous, pictured in a blue dress shirt and blue blazer, is beside microphones outdoors

After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous 

By Lee Hedgepeth

A bus pulls into the entrance to the immigration detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades on Aug. 3 in Ochopee, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Federal Judge Halts New Construction at Alligator Alcatraz

By Amy Green

Despite Presidente Kennedy receiving record amounts of oil revenues per capita, the town still suffers form poor infrastructure. Credit: José Cícero/Agência Pública

‘Where’s the Money Going?’: Why Brazilian Towns Awash With Royalties From Oil Are Still Among the Poorest

By Rafael Oliveira, Agência Pública and the Guardian

Samuel Corona (right), an activist with the Alliance of the Southeast, chants, “Stop General Iron” outside Chicago’s City Hall. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says it will no longer monitor a civil rights agreement with Chicago over the controversial scrap metal operation. Credit: Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Trump Dismisses Civil Rights, Fair Housing Cases in Chicago To Focus on ‘Real Concerns’

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

John Nordstrom stands before a rock dam he built on his property in Patagonia, Ariz., on July 9. Rock dams slows the speed of water, allowing it to better recharge the aquifer underground. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

As a Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Arizona, Residents Fear It’s Already Affecting Area Water

By Wyatt Myskow

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