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

North Carolina’s largest utility cites the Trump administration’s rollback of air pollution regulations and increases in power demand as factors in its proposed fuel mix.

By Lisa Sorg

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
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

A sign for Pfizer is seen at the company’s headquarters in New York City. Credit: Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

NJ Sues Pfizer Over Cancer-Linked Water Contamination

By Rambo Talabong

A coal mine operates on leased public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry

By Jake Bolster

Vic Barrett (left) and Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martinez are two of the former plaintiffs in the climate case Juliana v. United States who filed a new petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Credit: Our Children’s Trust

Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review

By Dana Drugmand

Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee at a Town Hall press conference in December 2024 announced the town is suing Duke Energy because it allegedly deceived the public about the validity of climate change. Credit: Town of Carrboro

Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate-Related Property Damage After Funding Denialist Campaigns?

By Lisa Sorg

The Passaic River flows through downtown Newark, N.J. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Passaic River Stars in a Short Drama About Its Life as a Superfund Site

By Anna Mattson

Disinformation on Steroids: Climate Science Takes It on the Chin

ICN Sunday Morning

A surface coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: BLM Wyoming

Bureau of Land Management to Sell Off Federal Coal Reserve Leases in Wyoming

By Arcelia Martin, Jake Bolster

Olivia Vesovitch (center), Georgi Fischer (right) and Eva Lighthiser (back) arrive at the U.S. District Court of Montana in Missoula on Sept. 16. Credit: Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

Can the Latest Youth Climate Case Win Where Others Have Failed?

By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

People walk along the East River in Brooklyn at sunrise on Aug. 12, as New York City experiences an air quality health advisory. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Urban Heat and Air Pollution May Harm Developing Brains in the Womb, Study Suggests

By Jaylan Sims

A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after a Chinese copper mine spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts

By Katie Surma

Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus?

ICN Sunday Morning

Machinery transfers coal at a port in China’s Chongqing municipality on April 20. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An aerial view shows a natural gas processing plant under construction in Pennsylvania’s Washington County on Oct. 26, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

A view of the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2016, where natural gas had been leaking from the Aliso Canyon storage facility since Oct. 23, 2015. Credit: Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images

Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows

By Liza Gross

Eshaan Vakil (left), an organizer with Climate Defiance, and Barbara Sheehan, with Sunrise Movement, are two of the activists who disrupted a panel discussion with Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub at a Harvard climate symposium on Friday. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Climate Activists Disrupt Fossil Fuel Executive at Harvard University Symposium

By Phil McKenna

Children speak alongside lawmakers at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Source: Screengrab from Sen. Ed Markey livestream

Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

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