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Wyoming Environmental Groups Debate Best Way to Manage Data Center Growth in the State

Concerns about siting, water and electricity demand have led to calls for more oversight of data center construction in the Cowboy State, but not alignment on how to achieve it.

By Jake Bolster

Locals voiced concerns about environmental damages from data center construction, water use and energy consumption at a meeting in Cody this October. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News
A boat works to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28, 2010, near New Orleans. Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

Deep-Sea Species Struggle to Recover After Deepwater Horizon Spill

By Bob Berwyn

The Thompson Callaway Spears #1 well, located on the vacant lots enclosed by black metal fencing, stands next to homes inside the Preserve at Medina subdivision in southwest San Antonio. Credit: Sam Owens/San Antonio Express-News

Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes, Dread Across San Antonio Subdivision

By Martha Pskowski

Students block the road outside a university in Paris during a protest on Oct. 7. Credit: Tom Nicholson/Getty Images

How the Climate Crisis Fueled the Youth Protests Roiling France

By Mathilde Augustin

Atrazine is the second most used weed killer in the U.S., where 70 million pounds of the herbicide are deployed each year. Credit: Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘No One Needs’ Is Found in Dangerous Quantities in a Quarter of US Rivers

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

A view of the Escambia Wood Treating Company Superfund site in June 2022. Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Groundwater Cleanup Set to Begin This Fall at North Florida Site, Decades After Superfund Designation

By Craig Pittman

Chloe Dorin is a former North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries biologist who recently resigned, alleging rampant mismanagement. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Floundering North Carolina Fisheries Agency Endangers Workers and Wildlife

By Lisa Sorg

Smoke rises from a fishmeal factory in 2025 near a residential community in Callao, Peru. Credit: Ministry of Production of Peru

Modern Aquaculture’s Invisible Cost: Its Putrid Stench

By Ian Urbina

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham speaks at a news conference to commemorate state-sponsored border wall construction on Nov. 26, 2024, in La Casita-Garciasville, Texas. Credit: Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images

Texas Land Commissioner Treads Carefully as Trump Border Wall Advances on State Property

By Martha Pskowski

A USDA worker holds soil from a ranch that uses regenerative agriculture practices. Credit: Preston Keres/USDA/FPAC

Regenerative Growers in Florida Aim to Improve Soil for Health of Food, Environment, Consumers and Workers

By Sara Pepitone

Devolin “Bobo” Webster was in bed when a tree struck his home, according to family members. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Isaias Made It to Birmingham. The Consequences Were Deadly.

By Lee Hedgepeth

People evacuate after a wildfire swept through the village of Voden amid a heat wave in Bulgaria on July 17, 2024. Credit: Ivan Yanev/Bgnes News Agency/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Is Increasing Simultaneous Exposure to Heat Waves and Wildfire Smoke

By Katie Surma

A fire rages on the SS South America, one of at least 90 fires that broke out on ships carrying fishmeal between the 1950s and 1970s. In an effort to prevent more fishmeal fires on cargo ships, the feed industry began treating fishmeal with ethoxyquin. Credit: Sepia Times, NY Daily News, Evers, Joost/Anefo

The Fire Retardant in the Seafood Chain

By Ian Urbina

The Green River flows into the Fontenelle Reservoir on May 28 near La Barge, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Momentum for Measuring Water Lost in Wyoming’s Portion of the Colorado River Dries Up

By Jake Bolster

As mayor of Corpus Christi, Joe McComb championed plans to build a desalination plant. But later city leaders called the project off. "We laid a golden egg in their lap," McComb said. "They took off in an inexplicable direction.” Credit: Jon Shapley/Inside Climate News

How a Bid to Beat Drought Drove Corpus Christi to the Brink of Disaster

By Dylan Baddour, Neena Satija

Derelict ships and fish farms near Preveza, Greece. Abandoned farms leach microplastics and release Styrofoam pellets, while their nets trap living creatures like crabs. Credit: Ryan Green/The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Greek National Park Suffocated by Fish Farming

By Johnny Sturgeon

A dilapidated house stands in Calipatria, Calif., a small Imperial Valley community near the Salton Sea. The lithium boom is arriving in a region where residents already face deep economic disparities and longstanding infrastructure challenges. Credit: Carla Samon Ros/CJI

The Race for Lithium Is Becoming a Race for Water

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

Ann Jones says the water at her home in Whitted, Fla., runs clear only some of the time. Other times, the water is brown. Credit: Amy Green/Inside Climate News

In One Historically Black Florida Community, the Drinking Water Is Brown

By Amy Green

Refineries operate at the Port of Martinez in California on April 22. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Northern California Community Wants Stronger Oversight of Dangerous Refineries Nearby

By Liza Gross

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