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Jeanette Toomer fears that formaldehyde-based relaxers in hair straighteners she used for decades led her to develop endometrial cancer. Credit: Michael Kodas

What’s in That Bottle?

Interview by Ainsely O’Neill and Steve Curwood, “Living on Earth”

The Toad and the Geothermal Plant

By Henry Carnell, Mother Jones

The proposed site of SOBE Thermal Energy Systems' tire pyrolysis chemical plant in Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sit on wooden blocks in August 2022 near wetland areas in Callaway, Virginia. The state's General Assembly has diminished the power of residents to engage in the decision-making process for permitting and siting such projects as the Mountain Valley Pipeline under the state Department of Environmental Quality, a key environmental justice provision under Virginia law. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmental Justice Advocates in Virginia Fear Recent Legal Gains Could Be Thwarted by Politics in Richmond

By Hannah Chanatry

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in April 2019. The following month he signed the Pollution Prevention for Our Future Act regulating toxic chemicals in Washington state. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Washington Law Attempts to Fill the Void in Federal Regulation of Hazardous Chemicals

By Emma Peterson

Farmworkers work in a field near Bakersfield, Calif. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

A volunteer firefighter and first responder drives a fire truck in the city of Lawler, located in Iowa's Chickasaw County. Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing to build a carbon dioxide pipeline through Chickasaw County, within just a few miles of the city limits. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

EVs and $9,000 Air Tanks: Iowa First Responders Fear the Dangers—and Costs—of CO2 Pipelines

By Kristoffer Tigue

Logging of a patch of the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire on Dec. 17. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Biden Administration Takes Historic Step to Protect Old-Growth Forest

By Marianne Lavelle

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

The GAF roofing shingles factory in West Dallas on Dec. 13. The factory reclassified itself as minor and averted public participation requirements in 2022. Credit: Shelby Tauber/Inside Climate News

‘Major’ Problem in Texas: How Big Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News; and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune

A view of cattle ruminating around a dairy farm in Escondido, Calif. Credit: Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images

Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress Continues to Block Farms From Reporting Emissions Anyway

By Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna

The Ashberry Landfill in Opp, Alabama. “There are mountains of uncovered tires at the facility,” a nearby resident complained in 2019, according to a record of the complaint. “The mosquito issue has been so bad that residents are having to stay indoors more.” Credit: Alabama Department of Environmental Management

An Alabama Landfill Has Repeatedly Violated State Environmental Laws. State Regulators Waited Almost 20 Years to Crack Down

By Lee Hedgepeth

Heather McTeer Toney, a former official with the Environmental Protection Agency, has made it her personal mission to raise awareness among Black women, in particular, and in the African American community, in general, about the potential harms of chemicals in beauty products and other items. Credit: Timothy Ivy

For One Environmentalist, Warning Black Women About Dangerous Beauty Products Allows Them to Own Their Health

By Victoria St. Martin

As Texas leads the nation in Black growth, Tiara Dawson, a newcomer, acknowledges that many lack the survival skills needed for the state's increasing number of climate disasters. Credit: Riot Muse

Moving South, Black Americans Are Weathering Climate Change

By Adam Mahoney, Capital B

"Barbara H" pulls in its net as it is night fishing for squid off the San Pedro coastline in California. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images

Deemed Sustainable by Seafood Industry Monitors, Harvested California Squid Has an Unmeasurable Energy Footprint

By Georgina Gustin

The participants of the field visit to Baltimore's Old Goucher and Broadway East neighborhoods hear Ben Zaitchik talk about the weather station installed in the backyard of Kelly Cross' house, a resident and community activist who, along with his husband Mateusz Rozanski, led the efforts to plant more trees in Old Goucher. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

With $25 Million and Community Collaboration, Baltimore Is Becoming a Living Climate Lab

By Aman Azhar

Participants walk in the Blue Zone on Wednesday during the COP28 climate conference in Dubai. Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

At COP28, a Growing Sense of Alarm Over the Harms of Air Pollution

By Victoria St. Martin

Joseph Vipond, from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, at COP28's Blue Zone in Expo City, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Walaa Alshaer/COP28 via Getty Images

More Than 100 Countries at COP28 Call For Fossil Fuel Phaseout

By Bob Berwyn

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