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A car drives along a flooded East Bay Street as Charleston, S.C. endured flooding due to the combination of an offshore storm system and an unusually high king tide on Nov. 5, 2021. Credit: Kit MacAvoy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Heavy Rain and Rising Sea Levels Are Sending Sewage Into Some Charleston Streets and Ponds

By Daniel Shailer

GRID Alternatives employees install no-cost solar panels on the rooftop of a low-income household on Oct. 19, 2023 in Pomona, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

White House Awards $20 Billion to Nation’s First ‘Green Bank’ Network

By Kristoffer Tigue

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stands with Dr. Robert Bullard (left) and Pastor Timothy Williams (right) during a tour of the Shiloh community in rural south Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Alabama Visit, Buttigieg Strays Off The Beaten Path. Will It Help Shiloh, a Flooded Black Community?

By Lee Hedgepeth

Sam Satterly investigated a hazardous waste dump known as the “Gully of the Drums” in Jefferson Memorial Forest, a Louisville public park, while she was a graduate student at the University of Louisville. Credit: Courtesy of Sam Satterly

The EPA Cleaned Up the ‘Valley of the Drums’ Outside Louisville 45 Years Ago. Why Did it Leave the ‘Gully of the Drums’ Behind?

By James Bruggers

Even days after rainfall, water still pools on properties in the Shiloh community. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Q&A: Ronald McKinnon Made It From Rural Alabama to the NFL. Now He Wants To See His Flooded Hometown Get Help

By Lee Hedgepeth

Michael Lusk, a refuge manager for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, surveys the edge of the federally protected swampland in Folkston, Ga., where a major new mining operation is preparing to break ground, raising concerns among longtime residents and environmentalists. Credit: Hyosub Shin/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun

By Drew Kann, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Shell gas station sign displays high prices on Sept. 17, 2023 in Los Angeles. Credit: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Potential Changes to Alternate-Fuel Standards Could Hike Gas Prices in California. Critics See a ‘Regressive Tax’ on Low-Income Communities

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A worker sprays weed killer around the edges of a vineyard near Healdsburg, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer

By Liza Gross

A Walk in the Woods With My Brain on Fire: The End of Winter

Text and photos by David Sassoon

A woman works on a farm as it rains with high humidity during a heatwave in Homestead, Fla. on July 15, 2023. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Florida Legislators Ban Local Heat Protections for Millions of Outdoor Workers

By Amy Green, Victoria St. Martin

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

Barbara Sattler, a visionary environmental and climate public health leader, talks about how to help build community resilience to a warming world. Credit: Liza Gross

Q&A: California Nurse and Environmental Health Pioneer Barbara Sattler on Climate Change as a Medical Emergency

By Liza Gross

Nathan Harrington, who leads Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, carries a broken tire visible from the road to his truck. Credit: Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer

DC’s Tire-Dumping Epidemic

Kayla Benjamin, The Washington Informer via Report for America

On Feb. 27, About 100 people marched from the New York Public Library’s flagship location in midtown Manhattan to the headquarters of three insurance companies. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

‘Insure Our Future:’ A Global Movement Says the Insurance Industry Could Be the Key to Ending Fossil Fuels

By Keerti Gopal

National Police officers remove climate activists from trees in Spain's Madrid Río Park. The environmental group Extinction Rebellion was protesting against tree felling that began in the park on Dec. 11, 2023. Credit: Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images

United Nations Official Says State Repression of Environmental Defenders Threatens Democracy and Human Rights

By Keerti Gopal, Bob Berwyn

Robert Bullard is a native of Coffee County, Alabama. He said that he's committed to getting justice for the Shiloh community. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

A White House Advisor and Environmental Justice Activist Wants Immediate Help for Two Historically Black Communities in Alabama

By Lee Hedgepeth

About 130 people gathered at the “Green New Deal for the People” rally in Pittsburgh last Thursday. Credit: Elevate Inc/Green New Deal Network

A National Tour Calling for a Reborn and Ramped Up Green New Deal Lands in Pittsburgh

By Keerti Gopal

Environmental justice scholar Dr. Robert Bullard speaks at the Hip Hop Caucus' inaugural A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice Award reception on April 20, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Shannon Finney/Getty Images

Q&A: Robert Bullard Says 2024 Is the Year of Environmental Justice for an Inundated Shiloh, Alabama

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

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