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A Citgo refinery fumes behind a home in Hillcrest, Corpus Christi. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints

By Dylan Baddour

In Helena, Montana, the legal team representing Our Children's Trust in June at the nation's first youth climate change trial in Montana's First Judicial District Court. (L-R) Barbara Chilcoot, Nat Bellinger, Phil Gregory and Roger Sullivan. Sixteen claimants, ranging in age from 6 to 22, are suing the state for promoting fossil fuel energy policies that they say violate their constitutional right to a "clean and healthful environment." Credit: William Campbell/Getty Images.

Climate Litigation Has Exploded, but Is it Making a Difference?

By Katie Surma

In a file photo, a sign reads "Heat Alert" and warns drivers and pedestrians about excessive heat in Chicago. Credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images.

New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands

By Aydali Campa

Aerial view of north Baltimore, where residents are eligible for assistance to cover cleanup costs after sewage backs up into homes under a 2017 modified consent decree signed by the city, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Department of the Environment. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Baltimore Won’t Expand a Program to Help Residents Clean up After Sewage Backups

By Aman Azhar

A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023. Swaths of the United States home to more than 80 million people were under heat warnings or advisories, as relentless, record-breaking temperatures continued to bake western and southern states. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images.

This Summer’s Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a New Analysis Shows

By Bob Berwyn

Residents in North Port St. Joe, Florida, had long been concerned that an export facility for liquified natural gas (LNG), like this one in Sabine Pass, Texas, would be built on the Gulf Coast in their community on the Florida Panhandle. But now Nopetro Energy says it had decided "many months ago" not to build the facility there. Credit: Getty Images.

After Litigation and Local Outcry, Energy Company Says It Will Not Move Forward with LNG Plant in Florida Panhandle

By Amy Green

The Birmingham XPress, the city's bus rapid transit line, opened last fall with the help of federal funding. The first bus route to break free of the city's old hub-and-spoke transit design, it quickly became Birmingham's most-used public transit option. Credit: Marianne Lavelle/Inside Climate News.

Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding

By Marianne Lavelle

Container ships siting off the coast of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, waiting to be unloaded. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Shipping Rule Backfires, Diverting Sulfur Emissions From the Air to the Ocean

By Lydia Larsen

In 2018, a smokestack on the site of then-ERP Coke, within the EPA's 35th Avenue Superfund site in north Birmingham, Alabama. The facility was sold in 2019 to the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, and is now called Bluestone Coke. The facility temporarily ceased operations in 2021, but still owes the Jefferson County Health Department almost $300,000 in fines and penalties for air pollution violations. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Reckoning in North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and Racism

By Vernon Loeb

In June 2021. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media in the Everglades in Miami. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)In June 2021. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media in the Everglades in Miami. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis Promised in 2018 That if Elected Governor, He Would Clean Up Florida’s Toxic Algae. The Algae Are Still Blooming

By Amy Green

Climate activists stand outside the European Parliament to demonstrate in support of the Nature Restoration Law. Credit: Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance via Getty Images

European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law

By Bob Berwyn

The Pleasant Village Community Garden, at Pleasant Avenue between 118th & 119th Streets in East Harlem, New York City. Credit: Kim Yim

As East Harlem Waits for Infrastructure Projects to Mitigate Flood Risk, Residents Are Creating Their Own Solutions

By Juanita Gordon

Activists in Lisbon pose holding signs during a rally against maritime mining at Luis de Camoes square. The protest against deep sea mining is an initiative of Portuguese environmental non-governmental organizations as a preview to the World Ocean Day, under the slogan "Join us to give voice to the deep sea," which denounces the use of heavy machinery that destroys marine ecosystems. Credit: Jorge Castellanos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

As an Obscure United Nations Gathering Deliberates the Fate of Deep-Sea Mining, the Tuna Industry Calls for a Halt

By Georgina Gustin

A visitor carries an American flag at the Viola Liuzzo memorial on the side of U.S. Highway 80 in Lowndes County, Alabama, in March 2015. Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who was shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan while shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

The Shell plastics plant on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mark Dixon, Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Q&A: What to Do About Pollution From a Vast New Shell Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

Haze obscures the skyline in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on June 27, 2023. Smoke from wildfires in Canada caused low air quality and obscured visibility. Credit: Nick Rohlman / The Gazette

Midwest States, Often Billed as Climate Havens, Suffer Summer of Smoke, Drought, Heat

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Chloe Johnson, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

The Nestor farm in Taylor County, where methane from a coal mine below is being vented in a tall white pipe next to the back porch. Mining dried up the farm's water well, which the Nestors used to water their cattle, a lawsuit claims. Credit: James Bruggers

Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families

By James Bruggers

The Syncrude oil sands mining complex at night, as drawn by Kate Beaton in her 2022 graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. Credit: copyright Kate Beaton. Courtesy Drawn & Quarterly.

Q&A: Kate Beaton Describes the Toll Taken by Alberta’s Oil Sands on Wildlife and the Workers Who Mine the Viscous Crude  

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