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A Pro-Dominion Grassroots Group Has Financial Ties—to Dominion

Supporters of the Virginia Energy Reliability Alliance were out in force at an air permit hearing last month for the utility’s controversial natural gas “peaker” plant in Chesterfield County. Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest utility, says it’s been “transparent” with regard to its support for the group.

By Charles Paullin

Brent Archer, a former Columbia Gas executive, speaks at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality public hearing on Sept. 8. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News.
Robert Taylor, co-founder of Concerned Citizens of St. John, stands in front of his home in Reserve, La. Credit: Emily Kask/AFP via Getty Images

Gulf South Residents and Green Groups Sue Trump and EPA Over Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions

By Keerti Gopal

Employees walk past the JBS plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. A new report lists the Brazilian meat giant as a top five greenhouse gas emitter. Credit: KC McGinnis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

By Georgina Gustin

A view of an operational Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. Credit: Eversource NH/CC BY-ND 2.0

New England Says Goodbye to Coal as Merrimack Station Powers Down

By Ryan Krugman

A fisherman observes the coal-fired Suralaya Power Station in Banten Province, Indonesia, on Oct. 31, 2023. Credit: Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing.

Story by Nicholas Kusnetz, data analysis by Peter Aldhous

The Fluvanna County Planning Commission deferred any decision on Tenaska Energy’s proposal until November during a meeting last week. Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Gas Plant That’s Part of PJM’s Fast-Tracked Process Is Getting Pushback in Virginia 

By Charles Paullin

An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Pennsylvania Community Groups Urge Officials to Restrict Data Center Development

By Jon Hurdle

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference at her Manhattan office on Feb. 20 in New York City. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Federal Actions Make New York’s Energy Future More Uncertain

By Lauren Dalban

Coal miners and their advocates gather outside the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, D.C., protesting the Trump administration’s delay of rules limiting silica dust exposure for mine workers. Credit: Aidan Hughes/Inside Climate News

Coal Miners and Advocates Plead With Trump to Enforce Black Lung Rule

By Aidan Hughes

People wade through PFAS-contaminated sea foam at North Carolina’s Holden Beach in October 2022. Credit: Clean Cape Fear

A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals

By Lisa Sorg

A combine harvests corn alongside a tractor near Northland, Minn. Credit: Richard Hamilton Smith/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To.

By Anika Jane Beamer

White plumes of smoke billow above U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants

By Jon Hurdle

A drilling rig is in Pennsylvania’s Greene County. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking

By Kiley Bense

A view of Formosa Plastics’ Point Comfort complex, near the site of Exxon’s planned plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant

By Dylan Baddour

An aerial view of southwest Detroit featuring a Marathon petroleum refinery. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests

By K.R. Callaway

The remnants of a fatal home explosion above the Oak Grove mine in March 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office

Eighteen Months After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Rolls Back Its Commitment to Monitor Explosive Gases Above Coal Mines

By Lee Hedgepeth

Duke Energy plans to apply for a license extension for its nuclear plants, including Shearon Harris in southern Wake County. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In Its New Carbon Plan, Duke Energy Gambles on Coal as a Shorter-Term Fix for Powering Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg

Communities in Monterey County are often embedded in agricultural fields. In the Pajaro Valley near Salinas, Calif., people are surrounded by strawberry fields, where growers apply large volumes of pesticides known to cause harm, including brain-damaging organophosphates and cancer-causing 1,3-D. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy

By Liza Gross

A waste water tank truck drives through Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

Appeal Could Make It Easier for Companies to Spread Drilling Fluids on Pennsylvania Roadways

By Kyle Bagenstose

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