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Pesticides in Your Produce? Probably.

Eating fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S. exposes consumers to classes of pesticides associated with serious health problems. New research helps show just how much.

By Liza Gross

Workers harvest kale on a farm in the Central Valley of Salinas, Calif. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Steep Environmental Costs of China’s Massive Global Development

A worker replaces a main water lead pipe at a home in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood on July 25. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Chicago Has Hundreds of Thousands of Toxic Lead Pipes—and Millions of Unspent Dollars to Replace Them

By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

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

Liz Robinson, executive director at Philadelphia Solar Energy Association, at her solar-powered rental property in Philadelphia on Sept. 3. Credit: Laurence Kesterson/Inside Climate News

Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened?

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

People in blue swim caps and neon orange buoys swim under a bridge in the Chicago River past people in kayaks

‘A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In

  By Leigh Giangreco

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

Nicholas Spada stands in front of an instument panel at UC Davis’ Crocker Nuclear Laboratory with a radiation exposure monitor prominently pinned to his shirt’s pocket on March 25.

Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

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

The Dark Star Mine Pit of the proposed South Railroad Mine, if approved and built, would be dug into this area. Credit: Great Basin Resource Watch

One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

By Wyatt Myskow

N.C. Wildlife Resources Commissions officials had to rescue dozens of Southern Appalachian Brook Trout from a mountain stream after a cattle farmer allowed as much as 2 feet of sediment to enter the waterway. Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

North Carolina Cattle Farmer to Pay $92,000 for Damaging Mountain Streams

By Lisa Sorg

A dancer practices Bomba, a traditional Puerto Rican dance, at El Batey Puerto Rican Center on July 31 in Buffalo, N.Y. El Batey has a thriving bomba community. Credit: Finya Swai

Buffalo Tests Its Status as a Climate Refuge

By Finya Swai, Erin Drumm

Water levels sit low in Lake Powell near Bullfrog, Utah, on Sept. 15. Negotiations to manage the shrinking reservoir and the rest of the Colorado River system may be more difficult without federal leadership. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Nominee for Top Federal Water Role Withdraws Amid Pushback from Some Colorado River States

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality on August 5. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns

By Phil McKenna

Duane Brankley stands outside his home in Chesterfield County, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Dominion’s Proposed Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says

By Charles Paullin

The site at Princeton’s Quarry Park that is being prepared for the town’s new microforest. Credit: Courtesy of Inga Reich

Plans Bloom for a Microforest in Princeton as New Jersey Residents Tackle Rising Heat

By Emilie Lounsberry

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Sen. Whitehouse Launches Investigation into Industry Groups’ Influence on Endangerment Finding Repeal

By Aidan Hughes

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