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The Year in Climate Photos

From the president’s desk to protests and disasters around the world, photos showed climate change is always easy to see but sometimes hard to look at.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Evacuated resident April Phillips wipes her face while watching a family dog at an evacuation center for the Dixie Fire at Lassen Community College in Susanville, California on Aug. 6, 2021. Phillips and her family were living in their cars and were told it would be at least 10 days before they could return home during the second-worst wildfire in California's history. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
The St. Croix neighborhood of Clifton Hill overlooks a quieted Limetree Bay Refinery on Tuesday, May 25 after a stack fire and massive oil flare caused a 60-day shutdown ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Clifton Hill residents, many of whom migrated to St. Croix from nearby Vieques, are no strangers to the refinery’s discharges under its previous owner, Hovensa. But the most recent shower of oil on their homes, cars, gardens and cisterns was the second in little over three months as the beleaguered 60-year-old refinery struggled to resume operations after an eight-year hiatus. Credit: Patricia Borns

Plans to Reopen St. Croix’s Limetree Refinery Have Analysts Surprised and Residents Concerned

By Kristoffer Tigue

The twin towers of the coker at the sprawling Limetree Bay refinery in St. Croix. Since February when the refinery restarted after an eight-year hiatus, problems with the coker and other processing units have created massive amounts of pressure inside the refinery, causing flares of oil and toxic emissions that have sickened downwind neighbors within seven miles. Credit: Patricia Borns

As Harsh Financial Realities Emerge, St. Croix’s Limetree Bay Refinery Could Be Facing Bankruptcy

By Kristoffer Tigue

Citing an ‘Imminent’ Health Threat, the EPA Orders Temporary Shut Down of St. Croix Oil Refinery

By Kristoffer Tigue

The U.S. Army National Guard conducts fenceline testing for sulfur dioxide on May 10 at the Limetree Bay oil refinery in St. Croix, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Credit: Capt. Marcia Bruno/National Guard

A U.S. Virgin Islands Oil Refinery Had Yet Another Accident. Residents Are Demanding Answers

By Kristoffer Tigue

Limetree Bay Terminals in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands on Jan. 27, 2018. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

EPA to Send Investigators to Probe ‘Distressing’ Incidents at the Limetree Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Kristoffer Tigue

The EPA Is Asking a Virgin Islands Refinery for Information on its Spattering of Neighbors With Oil

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Biden EPA Withdraws a Key Permit for an Oil Refinery on St. Croix, Citing ‘Environmental Justice’ Concerns

By Kristoffer Tigue

Donald Trump’s Parting Gift to the People of St. Croix: The Reopening of One of America’s Largest Oil Refineries

By Kristoffer Tigue

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