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America’s Largest Producer of Foundry Coke Is Operating Under an Expired Permit. Who Is at Fault?

County health officials told lawyers for an environmental group they would move forward with the permitting process after a legal filing asked a judge to force the agency’s hand.

By Lee Hedgepeth

ABC Coke is a by-product coke facility located in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News
Domtar’s plant along the Roanoke River in Plymouth, N.C., makes pulp used in the production of paper hygiene products. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Regulators Release a Plan to Help Repair the Contaminated Roanoke River

By Lisa Sorg

Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, and Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, called for a temporary pause in a part of the European Union’s methane regulation related to oil and gas imports at a meeting of European energy ministers in Dublin on Tuesday. Credit: European Union

EU Weighs Delaying Methane Rules as Energy Prices Rise

By Phil McKenna

A Meta worker leads a tour of the company’s data center in Temple, Texas, on July 22. Credit: Mikala Compton/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Meta Announces Large Solar Purchase Agreement in Texas, But It’s Powering Some Data Centers With Gas

By Lauren Nutall

A fracking pad in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance

Study of Groundwater Near Fracking Sites Finds Low Radium Levels, but Raises Concerns About Increased Salinity

By Jon Hurdle

An aerial view of Meta’s El Paso data center. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Electric Utility Only Considered Gas to Power $10 Billion Meta Data Center

By Martha Pskowski

People fill their cars with gas at a Shell station in Birmingham, Mich. Credit: Adam J. Dewey/Anadolu via Getty Images

Court Nixes Michigan’s Novel Antitrust Case Targeting Big Oil 

By Dana Drugmand

The construction site of an Amazon Web Services data center is seen in front of a nuclear power plant on July 3 in Berwick, Pa. Credit: Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s AI Boom Is Repeating Old Patterns of Exploitation

By Jon Hurdle

A view of an abandoned coal mine in Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Could Abandoned Mines House Pennsylvania’s Unwanted Data Centers? 

By Jessica Klein

People walk through a flooded street in a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Melissa in Santiago de Cuba on Oct. 29, 2025. Credit: Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

Breached Earth Boundaries Raise Risk of ‘Irreversible Change’

By Bob Berwyn

State Grid inspectors walk through a substation in Nanjing, China, on Jan. 29, 2025. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet

By Phil McKenna

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on July 15 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Whitehouse: Call Out the Corruption Propelling the US Climate Retreat

By Marianne Lavelle

Bills to protect the fossil fuel industry come in as the U.S. Supreme Court is three weeks away from hearing arguments in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. Credit: Finn Gomez/Getty Images

Congressional Republicans Aim to Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits

By Georgina Gustin

A flue-gas stack blows exhaust at a coal-fired power plant in Ghent, Ky., on Feb. 14. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Trump Doubles Down on Climate Denial With Plan to Repeal Power Plant Rules

By Liza Gross

A view of the Walter Scott Jr. Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant owned MidAmerican Energy, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Michael Siluk/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As Power Demand Rises, a Clean-Energy State Falls Back on Coal

By Anika Jane Beamer

Police and firefighters run away from a toxic dust cloud caused by the World Trade Center’s Tower One collapse in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Credit: Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images

25 Years After 9/11, the Health Toll Is Still Unfolding

By Lauren Dalban

A beach is seen adjacent to the Freeport LNG facility in Freeport, Texas. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

A Texas LNG Plant Pumps Out Chronic, Unpermitted Pollution, a Watchdog Finds

By Dylan Baddour

The construction site of a 49.5-megawatt three-level data center on July 8 in Vernon, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Data Center Boom Brings Health Hazards, Former EPA Officials Warn

By Keerti Gopal

Texas State Rep. Jon Rosenthal speaks with supporters before a press conference in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2025. Credit: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

Meet the Mechanical Engineer Running to Regulate the Texas Oil and Gas Industry

By Martha Pskowski

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