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Alito’s Recusal in Oil Case Renews Questions About Justice’s Investments

Nearly one-quarter of the associate justice’s $1 million in individual stock holdings are in fossil fuel companies.

By Marianne Lavelle

Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito attends inauguration ceremonies for President Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Lick Run, a tributary to West Virginia’s Cheat River, is one of many waterways in Appalachia that are impaired by pollution from coal mining. Acid mine drainage can create a reddish coloring in affected streams. Credit: Courtesy of Friends of the Cheat

Coal Communities Accuse Congress of Breaking Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands

By Kiley Bense

The Port of Wilmington on the Cape Fear River handled about 7 million tons of cargo in 2022. Credit: NC Ports

The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs.

By Lisa Sorg

A young Venezuelan miner works in an open pit mine in search of gold in El Callao, Venezuela, on Aug. 29, 2023. Credit: Magda Gibelli/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Wants to Accelerate Extraction in Venezuela. So Do Drug Trafficking Organizations.

By Katie Surma

President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, meets with U.S. oil company executives in the at the White House on Friday. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Oil Executives Non-Committal to Trump’s Venezuela Pitch at the White House

By Dennis Pillion

A worker fries tofu over a furnace fueled by a combination of plastic waste, wood and coconut husks at a tofu factory on May 22, 2025, in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. Credit: Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images

Burning Plastic Waste for Household Fuel Endangers Millions 

By Liza Gross

A PolarOil storage facility is seen on March 26, 2025, in Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images

As Trump Eyes Greenland, What Could That Mean for Island’s Mineral Wealth and Environment?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of the El Palito refinery operated by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. Credit: Jesus Vargas/picture alliance via Getty Images

‘The Dirtiest, Worst Oil’ Is in Venezuela

By Phil McKenna

A fisherman casts a net into the sea as an oil tanker is seen anchored in the background on Dec. 18, 2025, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Credit: Jesus Vargas/Getty Images

Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin

People walk across a road amid dense smog in Lahore on Dec. 12. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

In Lahore’s Smog Season, This Gen Z Doctor Is Centering Climate Change

By Keerti Gopal

Plant Barry’s toxic coal ash lagoon is more than a mile across at some points and is surrounded by the Mobile River, located just feet from its edge. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend, stands at McGee Beach near downtown Corpus Christi in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Yvonne Sorovacu (right), Hannah Hohman (center) and Jay Beal monitor a creek for signs of contamination from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa.

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways

Story by Kiley Bense, photos by Scott Goldsmith

A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste

By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous

A view of the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, visible from a strip mall parking lot. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Tracking Oil and Gas Waste in Pennsylvania Is Still a ‘Logistical Mess’

By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous

An LNG tanker unloads liquefied natural gas from the U.S. at a terminal near Athens, Greece, on Dec. 1. Credit: Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Gas Exports Are Driving Up Americans’ Energy Bills, Report Says

By Kiley Bense

The Salinas River flows through California’s San Ardo Oil Field. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Green California’s Big Oil Problem

By Liza Gross

A view of Chevron’s El Segundo refinery in California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds

By Dana Drugmand

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