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What Goes Up Must Come Down

A new study underscores growing unease about pollution from mostly unregulated commercial space activities.

By Bob Berwyn

A SpaceX rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas, for a test flight on Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images
An employee walks on a platform at TotalEnergies’ La Mède refinery near Marseille, France. Credit: Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images

Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies

By Dana Drugmand

Caribou graze by a portion of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System near the Dalton Highway on May 9, 2025, in Alaska’s North Slope. Credit: Lance King/Getty Images

Expanded Arctic Drilling Faces a Wave of Lawsuits

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, speaks at the Health Action Conference on Jan. 22 in Washington, D.C. The American Public Health Association is among several health organizations involved in the suit. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Community Catalyst

Healthcare Professionals, Scientists and Children Sue the EPA for Backtracking on Greenhouse Gas Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

The Rio Grande flows through Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico, where people rely on getting supplies from Texas. According to the Customs and Border Protection website, this area is slated for “smart wall” construction. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Border Wall Closes in on Big Bend

By Martha Pskowski

A view of Dow’s Seadrift chemical complex from the Victoria Barge Canal in Texas on Feb. 1. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Texas Alleges ‘Habitual Non-Compliance’ of Wastewater Rules at Dow Chemical Complex 

By Dylan Baddour

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) speaks during a hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Feb. 10 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Senate Democrats Say Trump’s EPA Curries Corporate Favor By Weakening Air Pollution Standards

By Lisa Sorg

A grain elevator is surrounded by floodwater from the Mississippi River on the Iowa-Illinois border in 2023. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Iowa’s Water Crisis Could Help Tip the Scales for Control of US House

By Anika Jane Beamer

New Jersey is home to over 30 species of amphibians, which can be affected by ranavirus. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Climate Change Could Make This Horrific New Jersey Wildlife Disease Worse

By Alex Megerle

A nearly 600-acre fire in Pacolet, S.C., caused substantial burning of tree roots. The roots are where kudzu vines build strong anchor points. Credit: Don Dicey/Conserving Carolina

The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires

By Jaylan Sims

An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

The ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery is seen on Jan. 13 in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy

By Dana Drugmand

Louise Yeung is New York City’s chief climate officer. Credit: Courtesy of the Mayor’s Office for Climate and Environmental Justice

Mamdani’s New Chief Climate Officer Wants to Make New York a ‘Better Place to Live’

By Lauren Dalban

Employees walk into the U.S. Department of Energy building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Administration Dropped Controversial Climate Report From Its Decision to Rescind EPA Endangerment Finding

By Dennis Pillion

President Donald Trump speaks alongside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin during an event announcing the rollback of the endangerment finding at the White House on Thursday. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding

By Kiley Bense

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 Civil Protection member comforts a woman as a wildfire burns in the village of Veiga das Meas, Spain, on Aug. 16, 2025. Increasingly severe wildfire seasons around the world are one of the signs that some forests are at a climate threshold. Credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future

By Bob Berwyn

A hairdresser braids a client’s hair with synthetic hair extensions in Lusaka, Zambia, on Aug. 15, 2023. Credit: Lillian Banda/Xinhua via Getty Images

Toxic Beauty: Black Women Most at Risk From Harmful Chemicals in Unregulated Hair Products

By Liza Gross

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