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Coal ash is the primary waste product of burning coal to produce electricity at facilities like this one in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash

By Lee Hedgepeth

Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, interacts with people during a campaign event on Jan. 19 in Milford, New Hampshire. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley Says Climate Change is Real. Is She Proposing Anything to Stop It?

By Phil McKenna

Juno and her calf were seen on Jan. 11 off Amelia Island, Florida. The calf has severe injuries to its head, mouth, and left lip consistent with a vessel strike. Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission/NOAA

Endangered Whale ‘Likely to Die’ After Suspected Vessel Strike. Proposed NOAA Rules Could Prevent Future Collisions, Scientists Say

By Kiley Price

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 4. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Supreme Court Weighs Overturning a Pillar of Federal Regulatory Law

By Marianne Lavelle

Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on March 22, 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

Snowfall covers Boulder Creek near Nederland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Town Appoints Legal Guardians to Implement the Rights of a Creek and a Watershed

By Katie Surma

According to a new report from Appalachian Citizens' Law Center, this “zombie” mine in Pike County, Kentucky has not produced coal since 2019. Credit: Erin Savage/Appalachian Voices

Congressional Office Agrees to Investigate ‘Zombie’ Coal Mines

By James Bruggers

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks at the Carver Vocational School on November 13, 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

As Maryland’s General Assembly Session Opens, Environmental Advocates Worry About Funding for the State’s Bold Climate Goals

By Aman Azhar

Demonstrators hold a sign reading Degrowth Now after they blocked the A12 highway during an Extinction Rebellion protest on March 11, 2023 in The Hague, Netherlands. Credit: Michel Porro/Getty Images

New Research Explores a Restorative Climate Path for the Earth

By Bob Berwyn

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs at the Tempe Center for the Arts on September 28, 2023. Credit: Rebecca Noble/Getty Images

Arizona Governor Vows to Update State’s Water Laws

By Wyatt Myskow

In July 2002, then-Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker, second from right, listens to a progress report on rescue efforts at Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania. At right is Joseph A. Braffoni, of the Bureau of Deep Mine Safety, second from left is Larry Winckler, center is David Hess, Pennsylvania secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and at left is Jeffery Stanchek a mine rescue instructor for the DEP. They were coordinating efforts to reach nine miners trapped for three days. Credit: Gene J. Puskar/ AFP via Getty Images.

David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

By Jake Bolster

Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sit on wooden blocks in August 2022 near wetland areas in Callaway, Virginia. The state's General Assembly has diminished the power of residents to engage in the decision-making process for permitting and siting such projects as the Mountain Valley Pipeline under the state Department of Environmental Quality, a key environmental justice provision under Virginia law. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmental Justice Advocates in Virginia Fear Recent Legal Gains Could Be Thwarted by Politics in Richmond

By Hannah Chanatry

Environmental activists from the Irish Wildlife Trust and Extinction Rebellion called on the Irish Government to introduce legislation in the form of a Biodiversity Act at a protest outside the National Biodiversity Conference in Dublin Castle on June 8, 2022. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

By Katie Surma

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in April 2019. The following month he signed the Pollution Prevention for Our Future Act regulating toxic chemicals in Washington state. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Washington Law Attempts to Fill the Void in Federal Regulation of Hazardous Chemicals

By Emma Peterson

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

The GAF roofing shingles factory in West Dallas on Dec. 13. The factory reclassified itself as minor and averted public participation requirements in 2022. Credit: Shelby Tauber/Inside Climate News

‘Major’ Problem in Texas: How Big Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News; and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune

The sun sets over an unpermitted surface mining operation in Winston County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Alabama, What Does It Take to Shut Down a Surface Mine Operating Without Permits?

By Lee Hedgepeth

Pronghorn migrate in Wyoming. Credit: Joel Berger

A BLM Proposal to Protect Wildlife Corridors Could Restore the West’s ‘Veins and Arteries’

By Adam Goldstein

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