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‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth

A smelting company has poisoned rivers, killed off boreal forest and belched out more sulfur dioxide than active volcanoes. Now it wants to produce more metal for the “green economy.”

By Marianne Lavelle

Vasily Ryabinin scales an overlook on the Taimyr Peninsula in June 2020, with the sprawl of the Norilsk Nickel complex visible below. He toured the area with Russian journalists shortly after resigning from his job with Russia's environmental protection agency due to his concern over what he saw as its failure to fully investigate the spill of 6.5 million gallons of diesel fuel into Arctic waterways last year. Credit: Yuri Kozyrev, NOOR
An oil flare burns at the Royal Dutch Shell Norco Refinery during a power outage caused by Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, Louisiana, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

After Ida, Louisiana Struggles to Tally the Environmental Cost. Activists Say Officials Must Do Better

By James Bruggers

A boat works to collect oil that has leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28, 2010 near New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

As the Gulf of Mexico Heals from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Stringent Safety Proposals Remain Elusive

By Nicholas Portuondo

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

L.A. Spill Has Exposed Pipeline Oversight Flaw

By Elizabeth Douglass

Enbridge CEO Patrick Daniel/

Under Pressure, U.S. OKs Enbridge Restart

By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News

River closed sign near the Kalamazoo River

Keystone XL: Safety Rules Won't Apply

By Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Technicians prepare the pipe before removing the ruptured section of 6B.

Feds Blame Enbridge for 'Complete Breakdown of Safety'

By Lisa Song and Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

Technicians prepare pipe before cutting and removing the section from the Enbrid

Inside the Dilbit Disaster, Part 2

By Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Primer: Is Dilbit Oil?

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Cleanup experts work to remove oil near the Kalamazoor River spill site,

Timeline of the Dilbit Disaster

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

Initial cleanup of a 5-acre contaminated zone in the pipeline break area

EPA: Recovering Oil Not Spilled?

By David Sassoon, InsideClimate News

Enbridge Restarted Ruptured Pipeline 2x

By David Sassoon

A handful of Canadian oil sands

Primer: Secrecy Shrouds Diluted Bitumen Risks

By Marie C. Baca, InsideClimate News

The Nebraska Sandhills in Holt County

TransCanada's $100M Bond: What's It Worth?

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

Oil spill-damaged trees in the Niger Delta

30 Years and $1B for Nigeria Oil Cleanup

By Camillus Eboh and Felix Onuah, Reuters

Oil Giant Under Shareholder Pressure

Felicity Carus, Guardian

Oil contamination in the Ecuadorean Amazon rainforest.

Is Chevron's Fight to Avoid Liability Par for the Course?

By Michael Keller and Stacy Feldman

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