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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

Coal ash is the primary waste product of burning coal to produce electricity at facilities like this one in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash

By Lee Hedgepeth

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 4. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Supreme Court Weighs Overturning a Pillar of Federal Regulatory Law

By Marianne Lavelle

The smokestack of the Wheelabrator Incinerator in Baltimore. Credit: Eva Claire Hambach/AFP via Getty Images

Advocates Welcome EPA’s Proposed Pollution Restrictions On Trash Incineration. But Environmental Justice Concerns Remain

By Aman Azhar

Plastic additives called bisphenols are found in a dizzying array of products—like canned food linings. Credit: Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

An unlined coal ash pond in western Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

EPA and Alabama Power to Start Settlement Negotiations Over Coal Ash Storage near Mobile

By Lee Hedgepeth

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

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

The Ashberry Landfill in Opp, Alabama. “There are mountains of uncovered tires at the facility,” a nearby resident complained in 2019, according to a record of the complaint. “The mosquito issue has been so bad that residents are having to stay indoors more.” Credit: Alabama Department of Environmental Management

An Alabama Landfill Has Repeatedly Violated State Environmental Laws. State Regulators Waited Almost 20 Years to Crack Down

By Lee Hedgepeth

Heather McTeer Toney, a former official with the Environmental Protection Agency, has made it her personal mission to raise awareness among Black women, in particular, and in the African American community, in general, about the potential harms of chemicals in beauty products and other items. Credit: Timothy Ivy

For One Environmentalist, Warning Black Women About Dangerous Beauty Products Allows Them to Own Their Health

By Victoria St. Martin

Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the train derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Credit: Michael Swensen/Getty Images

EPA Begins a Review Process That Could Bring an End to Toxic, Flammable Vinyl Chloride

By Kiley Bense

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President of the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference, speaks at a presentation of the Industrial Transition Accelerator on Saturday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Government, Corporate and Philanthropic Interests Coalesce On Curbing Methane Emissions as Calls at COP28 for Binding Global Methane Agreement Intensify

By Phil McKenna

Dozens of residents live within a few hundred yards of the Miller Plant in West Jefferson, Alabama, the nation's largest polluter of greenhouse gases. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth

Atlantic puffin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. Credit: Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

The Plucky Puffin, Endangered Yet Coping: Scientists Link Emergence of a Hybrid Subspecies to Climate Change

By Lydia Larsen

An aerial view of a natural gas pipeline under construction in Smith Township, Pennsylvania, in October 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

The Biden Administration Has Begun Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas ‘Gathering Lines.’ The Industry Isn’t Happy

By Craig R. McCoy

Honeywell Specialty Materials in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Credit: Kathleen Flynn for the Washington Post

Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators

By Phil McKenna

An injection well in Western Pennsylvania. Credit: FracTracker.org

Answers About Old Gas Sites Repurposed as Injection Wells for Fracking’s Toxic Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed

By Jake Bolster

Adam Ortiz, EPA Mid-Atlantic administrator, shown here in November 2022 at the Edmonston pumping station in Prince George's County, Maryland, visited the Ivy City neighborhood in Washington on Tuesday to award a $12 million grant for a technical assistance center. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News.

EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities

By Aman Azhar

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