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She is filling an orange bowl with water from her sink, which has a filter attached. Beside the sink is a filtered water pitcher.

Chicago Was Supposed to Warn Residents About Toxic Lead Pipes. It’s Barely Started

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Keerti Gopal

Pastor Timothy Williams has led the charge for change in the Shiloh Community he calls home. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Black Alabamians Sue State Department of Transportation Over Repeated Flooding

By Lee Hedgepeth

Vehicles move slowly through midtown Manhattan traffic in New York City on June 6, 2024. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

Once billed as the Chicago of the South, Okeechobee, never experienced the booming growth and development that has transformed Florida’s coasts. Credit: Amy Green/Inside Climate News

Florida’s Home Insurance Crisis Hits Hardest in Some of the State’s Poorest Counties

By Amy Green, Peter Aldhous

Traci Donatto outside her home in Deer Park, Texas. After 20 years away, she returned to the Houston suburb to care for her father, a former contract welder for the petrochemical industry who is dying of cancer. Credit: Mark Felix/Public Health Watch

Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions

By Shelby Jouppi

Pablo Saavedra Alessandri, secretary of the Inter-American Court Human Right, speaks during a presentation of the court’s advisory opinion on July 2 in San José, Costa Rica. Credit: Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Nations Must Act to Face Climate Crisis, Top Regional Court Says

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (center) is congratulated by his fellow Republicans after signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive

By Marianne Lavelle, Aidan Hughes, Amy Green, Arcelia Martin, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

The Chicago skyline is seen through the Damen Silos. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

These Century-Old Chicago Silos Are Slated for Demolition. Neighbors Want to Save Them

By Charna Albert

Cheryl Johnson (left), executive director of People for Community Recovery and the daughter of Hazel Johnson, stands next to Chicago Department of Environment Commissioner Angela Tovar, as she speaks at a rally outside of City Hall in April. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

In Chicago, a Landmark Environmental Justice Bill Inches Toward Passage

By Siri Chilukuri

El Paso, Texas (left) and Juárez, Mexico (right) are seen from Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, N.M. Credit: Justin Hamel

Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns

By Martha Pskowski

StarPet operates a 1.3 million-square-foot factory on 30 acres along Pineview Road in Asheboro, N.C. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People

By Lisa Sorg

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 20 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

A Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Restore Climate and Environmental Grants

By Amy Green

Representatives attend the closing plenary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change talks on June 26 in Bonn, Germany. Credit: Lara Murillo/U.N. Climate Change

Bonn Climate Talks Rife With Roadblocks and Dead Ends

By Bob Berwyn

The Town of Red Springs owns and operates it electric utility, which has fallen into disrepair. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In North Carolina, Exploding Bulbs and Fridges on the Fritz Reveal a Town’s Fraying Electric System

By Lisa Sorg

A Pacific Gas & Electric gas meter and utility infrastructure sits next to a building in the San Francisco Bay Area. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward

By Twilight Greenaway

Ayshka Najib (second from right), a climate activist based in the United Arab Emirates, protests at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, UAE, in 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Ayshka Najib

The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

By Katie Surma

Rev. Mariama White-Hammond is a pastor at New Roots African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dorchester, Mass., and served as Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the City of Boston from 2021 to 2024. Credit: Joshua Qualls/Massachusetts Governor’s Press Office

Juneteenth and Its Role in Environmental Justice—for All

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Elim, Alaska is perched above Norton Bay, an inlet of the Bering Sea. Credit: Max Graham/Northern Journal

A National Quest for Uranium Comes to Remote Western Alaska, Raising Fears in a Nearby Village

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

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