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In a Years-Long Fight, the Illinois Environmental Justice Movement Gets a Win

A bill, newly passed by legislators, will expand the state’s capacity to enforce limits on health-harming emissions in overburdened communities.

By Keerti Gopal

A view of factories, sorting facilities and recycling plants along the Calumet River in Chicago’s Southeast Side. Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis/The Washington Post via Getty Images
A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality in the region on Aug. 5, 2025. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Climate-Fueled Wildfires and Dust Storms Drove Up Air Pollution Around the World Last Year

By Kiley Bense, Keerti Gopal

An aerial view of the migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Fla. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatraz’s Air and Climate Pollution

By Amy Green

An oil pumpjack operates in the background as a fast food worker takes orders at a drive-through on Feb. 9, 2023, in Signal Hill, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Unequal Access to Nature Fuels America’s Health Crisis

By Katie Surma

An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

A Civil Protection member comforts a woman as a wildfire burns in the village of Veiga das Meas, Spain, on Aug. 16, 2025. Increasingly severe wildfire seasons around the world are one of the signs that some forests are at a climate threshold. Credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future

By Bob Berwyn

Steam rises from one of the plants near the Houston Ship Channel on Jan. 26 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds

By Kiley Price, Marianne Lavelle

Julissa Hernandez used to run track and field as a student at Niagara Falls High School before her asthma forced her to quit. She believes the poor air quality in in the New York town contributed to her complications. Credit: Jennifer Wybieracki

How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis

By Jennifer Wybieracki

Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

By Bob Berwyn

White-gray emissions billow from the stacks in the background. In the foreground is an American flag on a telephone pole.

The Cost of Ignoring Fossil Fuel Pollution’s Health Impacts

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Diesel-fueled generators sit between buildings at the Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic

By Arcelia Martin

A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste

By Kiley Price

Residents cultivate a Creole garden on land contaminated with chlordecone, a toxic pesticide, in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe. Credit: Mathilde Augustin/Inside Climate News

Two Caribbean Islands Seek Justice From France for Pesticide Poisoning

By Mathilde Augustin

A wetland is seen under construction on Jim Fulton’s farm in Livingston County, Ill. Credit: Illinois Land Improvement Contractors Association Inc.

Wetlands Help Remedy Agricultural Pollution. Some Illinois Farmers Are Installing New Ones.

By Alexia Underwood

An aerial view of southwest Detroit featuring a Marathon petroleum refinery. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests

By K.R. Callaway

A sign for Pfizer is seen at the company’s headquarters in New York City. Credit: Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

NJ Sues Pfizer Over Cancer-Linked Water Contamination

By Rambo Talabong

People in blue swim caps and neon orange buoys swim under a bridge in the Chicago River past people in kayaks

‘A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In

By Leigh Giangreco

Supercharged Hurricanes Mean More ‘Ghost Boats’ Haunting Waterways

By Kiley Price

Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy

By Kiley Price

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