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A Trump Ally’s Rise in Colombia Could Mean the End of Landmark Climate Policies

Abelardo de la Espriella, the apparent winner of the presidential election, has vowed to expand oil, gas and mining production, alarming activists in the world’s deadliest country for environmental defenders.

By Katie Surma

 Abelardo de la Espriella celebrates after casting his vote during the Colombian presidential runoff on June 21 in Barranquilla. Credit: Leonardo Castañeda/Getty Images
French Greenpeace activists rally to support the environmental group in Energy Transfer’s lawsuit next to the Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle in Paris on Feb. 20, 2025. Credit: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images

Greenpeace’s Dutch Anti-SLAPP Case Against Oil Pipeline Giant Advances

By Dana Drugmand
The coal-fired Cumberland Fossil Plant operated by Tennessee Valley Authority. Credit: TVA

Trump Administration’s Coal Investments Breathe New Life Into Plants With Repeated Violations

By Ajani Stella
Members of the Lumberton Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Las Amigas Incorporated march along Britt Road on April 18 in St. Pauls, N.C., against the Robeson County Landfill expansion. Credit: Morgan Casey

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg
Air Force One departs from Joint Base Andrews in Prince Georges County, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025. Credit: Austin DeSisto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Months After a Jet Fuel Leak, No Agency Tested Waters Downstream of Piscataway Creek. So Community Groups Are Doing It Themselves.

By Aman Azhar
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 24 Starlink satellites soars over Santee, Calif., after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 18, 2025. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

By Bob Berwyn
Carbon monoxide and non-methane volatile organic compounds are named as major sources of indirect contributions to global warming in a new paper. Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

By Nina Sablan
A newly constructed coal-fired power plant is seen on Aug. 6, 2025, in Bijie, China. Credit: Tao Liang/Xinhua via Getty Images

Despite Record Renewable Growth, China Is Still Betting on Coal

By Andrew Liu
A pit in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, where the Railroad Commission plugged a wellbore that was previously gushing thousands of gallons of wastewater a minute. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town

By Martha Pskowski
Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

By Lisa Sorg
Diane Wilson (right), Sharon Lavigne (left) and Nancy Bui display pictures of Vietnamese activists jailed for demanding reparations over the Formosa Plastics’ 2016 chemical spill disaster on May 28 in Taipei. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour
A worker walks past molten steel at a factory in Huai'an, China, on July 22, 2025. Credit: CN-STR/AFP via Getty Images

Driven by Steel Production, China’s Belt and Road Construction Carries a Heavy Climate Cost

By Phil McKenna
Firefighters are barely visible as smoke from the Bain Fire fills the air on May 19 in Jurupa Valley, Calif. Credit: Gina Ferazzia/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Wildfires Are Reversing Years of US Air Quality Gains, Study Finds

By Avril Silva
The coal-fired Stanton Energy Center in Orlando, Fla. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Trump Administration Emergency Order to Keep Florida Coal Plant Running

By Amy Green
An aerial view of the Brookhaven landfill in New York. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Troubled by Spreading Landfill Pollution, a Long Island Community Demands Action

By Lauren Dalban
A pile of coal is seen at the Longview power plant in Maidsville, W.Va. Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Funds Two New Coal Plants and Extends Another Dozen, Citing ‘Energy Dominance’

By Steven Rodas
Duke Energy’s coal-fired Roxboro plant sits on the shores of Hyco Lake in Person County. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Trump Administration Doubles Down on Coal Power in North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg
A view of factories, sorting facilities and recycling plants along the Calumet River in Chicago’s Southeast Side. Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In a Years-Long Fight, the Illinois Environmental Justice Movement Gets a Win

By Keerti Gopal
Eva Lighthiser, lead plaintiff in Lighthiser v. Trump, stands at the U.S. Capitol in July 2025. Credit: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images

Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against Trump

By Dana Drugmand

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