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

The toxic dust cloud unleashed by the collapse of the Twin Towers was “really hellish,” said a doctor who has treated New Yorkers who were exposed after the terrorist attacks.

By Lauren Dalban

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
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

Chris Hopkins (right), who organized opposition to the asphalt plant, attends the Aug. 27 Forsyth County Commissioners meeting. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

How Grassroots Opposition to a New Asphalt Plant Was Infiltrated by an Outside Operative

By Lisa Sorg

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announces a settlement with Chemours over its forever chemicals pollution during a press conference on Thursday in Cumberland County. Credit: Matthew Wonderly/CityView

Chemours to Pay $455 Million for Fayetteville Works Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg, Paul Woolverton

Prices are displayed at a Brooklyn gas station on Sept. 4 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As Hostilities Flare and Oil Prices Spike, U.S. Consumers Pay at the Pump

By Marianne Lavelle

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks to the press outside of the White House on Aug. 25. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices, While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them

By Georgina Gustin

The runway at the Hillsboro Airport in Oregon. Credit: Port of Portland

Elevated Levels of Lead Surround Local Oregon Airports 

By Claire Barber

A marker for an Energy Transfer petroleum pipeline stands near the Delaware River in Upper Makefield Township, Pa. Credit: Tracie Van Auken/Inside Climate News

A Pipeline Giant That Spilled Jet Fuel in Pennsylvania Is Trying to Weaken a Clean Water Law

By Marianne Lavelle

Traffic moves along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles on Feb. 13. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Court Stalls EPA Plan to Override California’s Vehicle Pollution Standards

By Anika Jane Beamer

A view of oil storage tanks at a terminal on April 12 in Qingdao, China. Credit: Getty Images

China’s Carbon Pollution Fell in Recent Months as Oil Demand Plummeted

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Argentina’s national team players hold a banner reading “The Malvinas are Argentine” after winning a World Cup semifinal match against England in Atlanta on July 15. Credit: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

Lawsuit in Argentina Challenges British-Israeli Oil Project Near the Long-Disputed Falkland Islands

By Katie Surma

The report from the United Nations Environmental Programme identifies the need to accelerate the phaseout of fossil fuels and the transition to renewable energy. Credit: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images

Climate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready?

By Bob Berwyn

Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in New York City on Sept. 2, 2021. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Law

By Lauren Dalban

Waorani protesters march through Puyo, Ecuador, on Aug. 21.

The Amazon’s Defenders Declare a State of Emergency

Story and photos by Katie Surma

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on April 29. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

The Trump EPA Is a Toothless Friend of Polluting Industries, Analysis Shows

By Peter Aldhous

Inside a CAFO that raises hogs for Smithfield Foods. Credit: Kathryn Gamble/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How North Carolina Wasted the Chance To Fix Hog Pollution

By Lisa Sorg

H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies equipment sits next to the Bar 20 dairy farm in Kerman, Calif. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Dairy Farm’s New Biogas Project Makes History and Raises Eyebrows

By Steven Rodas

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