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Marathon Petroleum's El Paso refinery contributes to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

El Paso Challenges Oil Refinery Permit

By Martha Pskowski

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

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

An Afghan scientist gathers water and soil samples at a water outflow from Bagram Airfield, formerly America's largest military base in Afghanistan. Credit: Kern Hendricks

America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up

By Lynzy Billing

Female workers sort out plastic bottles for recycling in a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh in October 2016. Plastic not only poses an immense pollution problem—it also exacerbates climate change. If plastic production stays on its current trajectory, by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions from plastics could reach 1.34 billion tons per year, equivalent to the emissions produced by 300 new 500MW coal-fired power plants. Credit: Abir Abdullah / Climate Visuals Countdown

Q&A: The Truth About Those Plastic Recycling Labels

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin on Feb. 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Texas Pipeline Operators Released or Flared Tons of Gas to Avert Explosions During Heatwave

By Dylan Baddour

State Rep. Chris Rabb, a Philadelphia Democrat, and Stephanie Wein, a water and conservation advocate at PennEnvironment, a Philadelphia-based advocacy group talk after a press conference at city hall. Credit: Victoria St. Martin

As EPA Proposes Tougher Rules on Emissions, Report Names Pennsylvania as One of America’s Top Polluters

By Victoria St. Martin

This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. Credit: NTSB/Handout via Xinhua/Getty Images

Rural Communities Like East Palestine, Ohio, Are at Outsized Risk of Train Derailments and the Ensuing Fallout

By Aydali Campa

An oil rig that has repeatedly emitted toxic gases operates next to a single-family home, an apartment complex and, just beyond the trees, a playground, in Kern County, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces oil in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

Workers with the Baltimore City Department of Public Works distribute jugs of water to city residents at the Landsdowne Branch of the Baltimore County Library on Sept. 6, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. The City of Baltimore issued a boil water advisory to over 1,500 residential and commercial facilities in West Baltimore after E. coli bacteria was found in drinking water. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

West Baltimore Residents, Students Have Mixed Feelings About Water Quality After E. Coli Contamination

By Darreonna Davis

Xinrong Ren, a climate scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), notes down readings from air pollution monitoring instrument fitted on the mobile lab after surveying methane hotspots in and around Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar

NOAA Climate Scientists Cruise Washington and Baltimore for Hotspots—of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants

By Aman Azhar

3M's chemical plant in Cordova, Illinois released 73 tons of perfluoromethane (CF4) into the atmosphere, more than any other industrial facility in the county, in 2021. CF4 is 7,380 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and remains in the atmosphere for 50,000 years. Credit: Phil McKenna

A 3M Plant in Illinois Was The Country’s Worst Emitter of a Climate-Killing ‘Immortal’ Chemical in 2021

By Phil McKenna

Ramses Diaz shows sensors installed in the back of the car that collects data every second. A wireless network then uploads it to the cloud to be analyzed by the scientists in California and New York's Department of Environmental Conservation. Credit: Myriam Vidal

Across New York, a Fleet of Sensor-Equipped Vehicles Tracks an Array of Key Pollutants

By Myriam Vidal

Steam rises from Alabama Power’s coal-fired Miller power pant in Adamsville. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021?

By Phil McKenna

A view of the Texas Capitol from the extension building in June. Credit: Montinique Monroe for The Texas Tribune

Texas’ Environmental Regulators Need to Get Tougher on Polluters, Group of Lawmakers Says

By Erin Douglas and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune

A wastewater treatment facility in Frederick, Maryland. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Toxic Releases From Industrial Facilities Compound Maryland’s Water Woes, a New Report Found

By Aman Azhar

A 150-foot derrick is positioned over a natural gas well site along a jogging and bicycle trail system near a Trinity River embankment on December 19, 2008 in Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Texas Is Now the Nation’s Biggest Emitter of Toxic Substances Into Streams, Rivers and Lakes

By Dylan Baddour

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