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A Radioactive Waste Stack Looms Beside a Segregation-Era Community—and It’s Expanding

Progress Village was established decades ago to provide affordable housing for Black residents near Tampa. The phosphogypsum stack, containing the toxic waste of fertilizer production, is right next door.

By Amy Green

 The radioactive phosphogypsum stack sits next to the community of Progress Village in Florida. Credit: Amy Green/Inside Climate News
A fracking pad in Fairfield Township, Pa. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

More Data Centers Will Mean More Fracking in Pennsylvania. These Advocates Want Better Protections.

By Jon Hurdle
Karl Brutsaert, SB Energy’s development head, speaks to residents about the company’s proposed gas power plant in Pike County, Ohio. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

The Coming Out Party for the Country’s Largest Gas Power Plant (Serving the Largest Data Center) Was Surprisingly Quiet

By Dan Gearino
Aliza Karim from Miami Waterkeepers tests the water quality in the Little River on October 26, 2023, in Miami Dade County, Flordia. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Most Florida Waterways Fail Water Quality Standards as Enforcement Lags

By Madeline Shaw
At the crux of the lawsuit is the permit’s lack of “representative monitoring” to detect the illegal entrance of pollutants into ground and surface water from CAFOs. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A New Oregon Permit for Industrial Farms Violates the Clean Water Act, Advocates Allege

By Claire Barber
A carbon capture system is seen at a plant in Heidenheim, Germany, on July 23. Credit: Stefan Puchner/picture alliance via Getty Images

ExxonMobil Uses Corporate Arbitration System to Challenge Climate Solution It Promotes

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz
Sea lions swim in the Pacific Ocean as birds fly above near Morro Bay, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Marine Sanctuaries Face Threats of New Trump-Backed Offshore Oil Leases

By Avril Silva
People watch a July 4 fireworks show that lit up the skies above Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News

D.C. Air Quality Was Among the Worst In the World Twice This Month. What Can the District Do to Improve It?

By Gabriel Matias Castilho
Trucks operate at a coal mine in Lost Creek, Ky. Credit: Diane Desobeau/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Administration Eyes Massive Coal Reserves Under Federal Lands

By Lisa Sorg
Traffic clogs a highway on Jan. 15 in Charlotte, N.C. Part of the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program was intended to help CleanAIRE NC install air quality monitors throughout Mecklenburg County. Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images

Federal Judge Orders EPA to Administer Environmental Justice Grants

By Lauren Dalban
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, who represents the county where Marathon’s Martinez Renewables operates, visits striking workers in early May. Credit: Courtesy of USW Local 5

California Biofuel Refinery Workers Say Understaffing and Fatigue Threaten Their Safety and the Community

By Liza Gross
A data center on Omicron Road in San Antonio is owned by Vantage Data Centers and operates down the street from a residential area. Credit: Brendan Gibbons/Environmental Integrity Project

Environmental Groups Contest Texas Data Centers’ Air Pollution

By Ajani Stella
Smoke from wildfires in Canada engulfs the New York City skyline on July 16. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

EPA Violated Key Soot Standard in Clean Air Act, Court Rules

By Avril Silva
People ride past a drain clogged with plastic waste along a roadside in Karachi, Pakistan, on Aug. 24, 2025. Credit: Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images

Why Plastics Have Overtaken the Planet

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
People take shelter in a cooling center in Portland, Ore., on June 27, 2021. Scientists have said the deadly 2021 heatwave in the Pacific Northwest would have been nearly impossible before human-caused global warming. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

As Climate Extremes Collide, Attribution Science Evolves

By Bob Berwyn
The Delaware River flows through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania border. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Ban in the Delaware River Basin Survives a Republican Challenge (For Now)

By Jon Hurdle
The construction at Venture Global’s LNG export facility in Port Sulphur, La., on Feb. 26, 2024. Credit: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Governments Knew the Risks of Global Warming as They Chose Fossil-Fueled Growth in the 1950s and ’60s

By Bob Berwyn
Alabama Power’s coal ash storage lagoon at its Greene County plant sits next to the Black Warrior River. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Trump EPA Moves to Approve Alabama Coal Ash Program Rejected by Biden Administration

By Dennis Pillion
The JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

The World’s Largest Meat Company Abandons Its Climate and Deforestation Goals

By Georgina Gustin

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