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SOBE Energy Solutions' site for its proposed tire pyrolysis chemical plant that would make synthetic gas to burn and produce steam for heating and cooling some downtown Youngstown, Ohio, buildings. Marketed as a green solution to waste and energy problems, critics view it as a source of unwanted toxic air emissions and a fire or explosion risk next to a large jail, student housing and other buildings. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

In Youngstown, a Downtown Tire Pyrolysis Plant Is Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’

By James Bruggers

Shashawnda Campbell, community organizer with South Baltimore Community Land Trust, a local nonprofit working on affordable housing, in front of piles of coal at the CSX facility in Baltimore. Baltimore City recently decided to close the only recreation facility available to Curtis Bay residents dealing with coal dust and other hazards from the facility. Credit: Jessica Gallagher/Baltimore Banner.

On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City

By Aman Azhar

Solar panels on Chicago's South Side.

A Proposed Gas Rate Hike in Chicago Sparks Debate Amid Shift to Renewable Energy

By Aydali Campa

File photo: A horizontal gas drilling rig in the Marcellus Shale outside Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Massive quantities of water, sand and chemicals, many exempt from regulation under the "Halliburton amendment," are pumped into the wells at high pressure as part of the fracking process. Credit: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images.

‘Halliburton Loophole’ Allows Fracking Companies to Avoid Chemical Regulation

By Jon Hurdle

Jason Smith, the New York Restoration Project's director of northern parks, who has worked at Swindler Cove since 2006: “This is one of the most vulnerable neighborhoods in northern Manhattan.” Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News.

This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space

By Juanita Gordon

In 1958, staff members at a newly created agency called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention practice drawing training aids for teaching about vector-borne diseases, including malaria; in this case, one staff member draws the life cycle of a mosquito on a whiteboard. Image courtesy CDC. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images.

Malaria Cases in Florida and Texas Raise Prospect of Greater Transmission in a Warmer Future

By Victoria St. Martin

Jane Gilbert, chief heat officer for Miami-Dade County, says not only is the heat here changing. Certain residents are more vulnerable than others. Credit: Amy Green/Inside Climate News.

Miami is Used to Heat, but Not Like This

By Amy Green

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

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