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Refuse bags full of materials for recycling in different colored plastic bags. Credit: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

A Houston Firm Says It’s Opening a Billion-Dollar Chemical Recycling Plant in a Small Pennsylvania Town. How Does It Work?

By James Bruggers

A resident alpine bumblebee species, Bombus kirbiellus, feasts on a flower in an alpine environment. Credit: Candace Galen

Warming Trends: Climate Insomnia, the Decline of Alpine Bumblebees and Cycling like the Dutch and the Danes

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Kyle Ferrar of FracTracker Alliance has documented emissions of the climate super-pollutant methane and hazardous air contaminants drifting from this oil well site toward the Grow Academy K-8 school in Arvin, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Passes Law Requiring Buffer Zones for New Oil and Gas Wells

By Liza Gross

A nonstick cooking wok on stovetop in Lafayette, California, March 7, 2022. PFAS, known as "forever chemicals," are commonly used in household items such as nonstick pans, cleaning products and stain-resistant coatings on fabrics and carpet. Credit: Gado/Getty Images

Ubiquitous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Increase Risk of Liver Cancer, Researchers Report

By Victoria St. Martin

A pumpjack extracts crude oil just behind Yesinia Martinez's bedroom window. Martinez has had health problems, most linked to oil and gas extraction, since she was little. Credit: Liza Gross

When an Oil Well Is Your Neighbor

By Liza Gross

In Portsmouth, a Superfund Site Pollutes a Creek, Threatens a Neighborhood and Defies a Quick Fix

By Daelin Brown

A laborer quenches his thirst with water from a bottle on a street amid rising temperatures in New Delhi on May 27, 2020. Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images

Without Significant Greenhouse Gas Reductions, Countries in the Tropics and Subtropics Could Face ‘Extreme’ Heat Danger by 2100, a New Study Concludes

By Victoria St. Martin

Heavy machinery excavate and carry coal ash from drained coal ash pond in Dumfries, Va. on June 26, 2015. Credit: Kate Patterson for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Earthjustice Is Suing EPA Over Coal Ash Dumps, Which Leak Toxins Into Groundwater

By James Bruggers

A car drives by a home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Study: Pennsylvania Children Who Live Near Fracking Wells Have Higher Leukemia Risk

By Victoria St. Martin

Doug Steck at his family’s farm near Williamsport, Ohio. His family has agreed a lease to allow development of some of the property for solar power. Credit: Dan Gearino

Outnumbered: In Rural Ohio, Two Supporters of Solar Power Step Into a Roomful of Opposition

By Dan Gearino

A Chapin High School athletic trainer helps hydrate a football player during early morning practice in El Paso, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Sports and Climate Change in Texas, a Community Housing Project Named after Rachel Carson and an E-Bike Conversion Kit for Your Bicycle

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Teenage Floridian Has Spent Half His Life Involved in Climate Litigation. He’s Not Giving Up

By Amy Green

An Emory University student collects a blood sample from Carnetta Jones, right, at Cosmopolitan AME Church on Atlanta's west side on July 30, 2022. The university is studying the community's exposure to lead and other contaminants after high levels of lead were found in the soil of two historically Black neighborhoods. Credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

Progress in Baby Steps: Westside Atlanta Lead Cleanup Slowly Earns Trust With Help From Local Institutions

By Aydali Campa

Cars make their way toward downtown Los Angeles, notorious for traffic and air pollution, a silent killer now linked to brain development problems in young children. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Study Underscores That Exposure to Air Pollution Harms Brain Development in the Very Young

By Victoria St. Martin

Annie Moore, an English Avenue resident on Atlanta's west side, believes the lump of black rock on her lawn is lead-tainted slag. She worries that if the EPA replaces her dirt, it will lead to flooding on her property. Credit: Aydali Campa

A Fear of Gentrification Turns Clearing Lead Contamination on Atlanta’s Westside Into a ‘Two-Edged Sword’ for Residents

By Aydali Campa

EPA On-Scene Coordinator Chuck Berry fixes a sign on a yard his team cleaned on English Avenue on May 12, 2022. Since 2019, the agency has been testing soil in the study area, which spans more than 600 acres, for lead. Credit: Aydali Campa

In Atlanta, Work on a New EPA Superfund Site Leaves Black Neighborhoods Wary, Fearing Gentrification

By Aydali Campa

A polar bear mom and cub wander near the quarry on the outskirts of the town of Churchill. Credit: Madison Stevens/Polar Bears International

Warming Trends: A Possible Link Between Miscarriages and Heat, Trash-Eating Polar Bears and a More Hopeful Work of Speculative Climate Fiction

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Baltimore Public Works Museum (formerly Sewage Pumping Station) in Little Italy on April 9, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

A Federal Judge Wants More Information on Polluting Discharges From Baltimore’s Troubled Sewage Treatment Plants

By Aman Azhar

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