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EPA Proposes to Expand its Regulations on Dumps of Toxic Waste From Burning Coal

The action was prompted by a lawsuit seeking to close a glaring loophole that had left many of the nation’s mountains of coal ash without federal regulations, but the agency would still exempt some disposal sites.

By James Bruggers, Amy Green

The Stanton Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant, is seen in Orlando. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The sun sets June 5, 2003 over the Florida Everglades. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Climate Change Forces a Rethinking of Mammoth Everglades Restoration Plan

By Amy Green

Clockwise from top left: Amy Green covers climate and the environment in Florida. Wyatt Myskow is a Roy Howard Fellow and Mountain West correspondent based in Phoenix. Aydali Campa recently joined ICN’s Midwest network, covering environmental justice throughout the region from Chicago. Aman Azhar covers environmental justice with a focus on Baltimore and Maryland. Martha Pskowski lives in El Paso and covers climate and the environment in Texas along with Dylan Baddour, based in Austin.

Amy Green Joins Inside Climate News to Cover Florida; Regional and Local Networks Expand in the Southeast, Midwest, Texas and Mountain West

By ICN Editors

In this aerial view, vehicles make their way through a flooded area after Hurricane Ian passed through on Sept. 29, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A New Report Is Out on Hurricane Ian’s Destructive Path. The Numbers Are Horrific

By Amy Green

Coal miners, their faces smeared with coal dust in a coal mine, in Cumberland, Kentucky, around 1945. Credit: Curtis Wainscott/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino

Gail LeBoeuf, a lifelong member of St. Michael Catholic Church in St. James Parish and co founder and co executive director of the group Inclusive Louisiana, was part of a delegation of Black elders from Louisiana to speak last summer before UNESCO. Credit: James Bruggers

Citing ‘Racial Cleansing,’ Louisiana ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Sue Over Zoning

By James Bruggers

Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

On the Frontlines in a ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black Women Inspired by Faith Are Powering the Environmental Justice Movement

By James Bruggers

Sea World employees prepare a sling for Corleone, a rehabilitated manatee, to be released to his original home at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida on Jan. 17, 2022. Credit: Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Nursing Florida’s Ailing Manatees Back to Health

By Amy Green, WMFE

A man tows a canoe through a flooded street of his neighborhood as a truck passes in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022, after Hurricane Ian slammed the area. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole Left Devastating Flooding in Central Florida. Will it Happen Again?

By Amy Green,  WMFE

A rescue team from the Jackson Fire Department assists people out of floodwaters downtown on July 28, 2022 in Jackson, Kentucky. Credit: Michael Swensen/Getty Images

Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation

By James Bruggers

Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area of "cancer alley" on Oct. 12, 2013. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

Q&A: Cancer Alley Is Real, And Louisiana Officials Helped Create It, Researchers Find

By James Bruggers

People watch as President Donald Trump tours the Cameron LNG Export Facility May 14, 2019, in Hackberry, Louisiana. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Louisiana Regulators Are Not Keeping Up With LNG Boom, Environmentalists Say

By James Bruggers

John Allaire (left), a retired oil and gas environmental manager, consulted with James Hiatt, the southwest Louisiana coordinator of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, in March on Allaire's Cameron Parish, Louisiana property. Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass LNG export terminal is in the background. The proposed Commonwealth LNG terminal would be constructed nearby. Credit: James Bruggers

Sidestepping a New Climate Commitment, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Greenlights a Mammoth LNG Project in Louisiana

By James Bruggers

An airboat is seen hovering over Everglades wetland in Everglades wetlands in Everglades National Park, Florida on Sept. 30, 2021. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Expedition Retraces a Legendary Explorer’s Travels Through the Once-Pristine Everglades

By Amy Green

An LNG tanker makes its way into Cameron Pass near the site of Venture Global LNGs facility at Cameron Pass, near Cameron, Louisiana, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Credit: Getty Images

Protesters Rally at Gas Summit in Louisiana, Where Industry Eyes a Fossil Fuel Buildout

By Dylan Baddour

LEFT: Then-Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) greets attendees during Black Lives Matters Business Expo on June 19, 2020 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Crist is running for governor of Florida as a Democrat. Credit: Octavio Jones/Getty Images. RIGHT: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media during a press conference at PortMiami on April 08, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Misery Wrought by Hurricane Ian Focuses Attention on Climate Records of Florida Candidates for Governor

By Amy Green

Jamiya Williams, left, watches as her fiance, Terrence Carter, right, pours bleach into the water before washing dishes in response to the water crisis on Sept. 1, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. The water pressure increased in their apartment on Wednesday however the water is still unsafe to drink. Jackson has been experiencing days without reliable water service after river flooding caused the main treatment facility to fail. Credit: Brad Vest/Getty Images

Q&A: How White Flight and Environmental Injustice Led to the Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis

By James Bruggers

These Clergy Are Bridging the Gap Between Religion and Climate

By James Bruggers

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