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Smoke emits from the stacks of ABC Coke in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Citing National Security, Trump Has Abandoned Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Ovens

By Lee Hedgepeth

StarPet, a plastics plant in Asheboro, sends wastewater containing 1,4-dioxane to the city's treatment plant, which in turn discharges it into rivers and streams that are drinking water supplies. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater

By Lisa Sorg

A wood stork carries fresh nesting material across the Wakodahatchee Wetlands on Jan. 21 in Delray Beach, Fla. Credit: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Trump Administration to Finalize Protections for 11 South Florida Plants and Animals

By Amy Green

A view of the American Refining Group oil refinery in Bradford, Pa. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Pennsylvania Must Act to Limit Greenhouse Gases, Lawyers Argue

By Kiley Bense

Steam rises from one of the plants near the Houston Ship Channel on Jan. 26 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds

By Kiley Price, Marianne Lavelle

A young humpback whale swims with its mother in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean near the island of Rurutu in the Austral archipelago of French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

How a ‘Powerful Vision’ on Whales and Oceans Could Change Worldviews

By Katie Surma

An African elephant moves through the Cuando River in Angola. Credit: Kostadin Luchansky/National Geographic

One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News

By Katie Surma

The Gifford Fire burns through 30,000 acres in Los Padres National Forest near Santa Maria, Calif., on Aug. 2, 2025. Credit: Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not.

By Katie Surma

NYC Congestion Pricing Is Improving Air Quality, but Trump Pushback Threatens Its Future

By Kiley Price

The aerial view shows a modest house and the American flag out front partially underwater.

Amid National Call to Make Polluters Pay, Illinois Lawmakers Are Prepping a Climate Change Superfund Bill

By Keerti Gopal

An aerial shot shows billowing white emissions from stacks in the large complex.

Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies

By Dana Drugmand

A patch of the White Mountain National Forest is clear-cut in a logging operation near Stow, Maine. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court

By Gloria Dickie

Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say

By Jake Bolster

Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline are seen at a construction site in Park Rapids, Minn., in 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects

By Teresa Tomassoni

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

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

By Marianne Lavelle

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance speaks during a meeting about Venezuela with President Donald Trump and other oil executives at the White House on Friday. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Coastal waters flow through deteriorating wetlands in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of land, an area roughly the size of Delaware, partially due to climate-driven sea level rise. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

After Losing a Climate Case in a Louisiana Courtroom, Chevron Wants a Change of Venue

By Lee Hedgepeth

Ned Tapa, a Māori leader, paddles down the Whanganui River in New Zealand. Credit: Richard Sidey

‘I Am the River’: How Indigenous Knowledge Reshaped New Zealand’s Law

By Katie Surma

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