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Steam billows from Valero’s West Refinery outside Corpus Christi on April 29. Cooling towers at industrial facilities can evaporate more than 1,000 gallons of water per minute. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say

By Neena Satija, Dylan Baddour

Drought and intruding salt water helped turn this former rice field in Gambia into a “wet desert.” Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News

In Gambia, Salt Water Intrusion Is the Leading Edge of Climate Change

By Phred Dvorak

A Revolutionary War reenactor drinks water in the shade near Independence Hall during high temperatures on July 3 in Philadelphia. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

As It Celebrates the Nation’s Past, Philadelphia Braces for a Hotter Future

By Nina Sablan, Daniel Perrin

Energy Fuels’ Pinyon Plain uranium mine, located a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park and inside Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Arizona Regulators Are Raising Contaminant Limits for a Uranium Mine With an Arsenic Problem

By Wyatt Myskow, Maya McDaniel

Braven Environmental stopped operating its Zebulon chemical recycling plant last year and began hauling the last of its equipment away this summer. The circular outline indicates the former location of a tank. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Chemical Plant Mishandled Hazardous Waste for Years, Then Quietly Shuttered

By Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg

Four Waterloo schools are located with two miles of Seneca Meadows. The landfill has applied for a state permit undertake a major expansion. Credit: Mark Pitifer

Report on Elevated Lung Cancer Fails to Quell Uproar Around New York’s Largest Landfill

By Peter Mantius

A sloth named Chewie is one of the few survivors transferred from Sloth World. Credit: Central Florida Zoo

Florida Regulators Stood by as Dozens of Sloths Died, New Records Reveal

By Katie Surma, Kiley Price

Cars and trucks move along the Cross Bronx Expressway, a notorious stretch of highway in New York City that is often choked with traffic. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

NYC Invests in Air Quality, but the Bronx Still Can’t Breathe Easy

By Lauren Dalban

A view of wetlands in a flood zone just south of the Hudson River in Greenport, N.Y. Credit: Will Waldron/Times Union via Getty Images

A Court Ruling Leaves Some of New York’s Most Important Wetlands Unprotected

By Madeline Shaw

Construction is seen at the two mine shafts for South32’s Hermosa project in Patagonia, Ariz., on Feb. 18. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Feds Grant Final Approval for Arizona Mine Situated in Critical Habitat for Jaguars and Mexican Spotted Owls

By Wyatt Myskow

Thick smoke rises from a mountain range overlooking the community of Vinca, France, tucked between trees.

Record Heat Drives Wildfires in Europe, Forces Thousands to Evacuate

By Keerti Gopal

llegal dumping in Gianyar, Bali. Credit: Courtesy, Merah Putih Hijau (MPH)

Bali Is Still Choking on Plastic

By Alula Alderson

Commercial fishers haul in their alewife catch south of Benton Falls Dam in Benton, Maine, on May 16. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Dam Removal Efforts Lead to a Stunning Comeback for Maine’s Alewives

By Sydney Cromwell

Planada residents David and Rita Rodriguez are concerned over expansion plans from a nearby dairy farm in Le Grand, Calif. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Dairy Farms’ Expansion Plan Worries California Families Who Once Had a ‘Little Piece of Heaven’

By Steven Rodas

People fish from a raft on the Blackfoot River in Missoula, Mont. Credit: Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management

New Gold Exploration Revives Old Fears for Montana’s Blackfoot River

By Mosabber Hossain

Backpackers hike into the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

The Spectacular Regrowth of New England’s Forests

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

An oil field in Kern County, California. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California’s First Carbon Capture Project Is Up and Running. Environmentalists Are Still Trying To Stop It.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A Freedom 250 banner celebrating America’s 250th birthday hangs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture building on June 2 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

As America Celebrates 250th, Murkiness Surrounds Trump-Backed Planning Fund

By Amy Green

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