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Chemical Accidents Rise as Trump Administration Proposes Weakening Safety Rules

Hazardous chemical releases from industrial accidents that injured or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years.

By Liza Gross

Crews work to extinguish a fire after an explosion at a Chevron refinery on Oct. 2, 2025, in El Segundo, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images
In Kenya, 100 percent of coral reefs, mangroves and marine and coastal protected areas overlap with proposed oil and gas blocks. Credit: Muturi Kamau

Offshore Oil and Gas Rush Threatens Whale Corridors and Coral Reefs

By Teresa Tomassoni

Sherry Peshoff stands on a slab where a home use to sit next to the perimeter wall of Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Cameron, La. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

What Happened When an LNG Giant Came to Town

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The construction site of a natural gas pipeline. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A Pipeline Company Says It Will Protect the Environment in North Carolina. Its Record in Tennessee Says Otherwise.

By Lisa Sorg

A view of Shell’s massive ethane “cracker” plant at Monaca in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a project that opened in 2022. Credit: Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Fossil Fuel Tax Revenue Lags Far Behind Other Energy States, Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

Abelardo de la Espriella celebrates after casting his vote during the Colombian presidential runoff on June 21 in Barranquilla. Credit: Leonardo Castañeda/Getty Images

A Trump Ally’s Rise in Colombia Could Mean the End of Landmark Climate Policies

By Katie Surma

French Greenpeace activists rally to support the environmental group in Energy Transfer’s lawsuit next to the Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle in Paris on Feb. 20, 2025. Credit: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images

Greenpeace’s Dutch Anti-SLAPP Case Against Oil Pipeline Giant Advances

By Dana Drugmand

The coal-fired Cumberland Fossil Plant operated by Tennessee Valley Authority. Credit: TVA

Trump Administration’s Coal Investments Breathe New Life Into Plants With Repeated Violations

By Ajani Stella

Members of the Lumberton Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Las Amigas Incorporated march along Britt Road on April 18 in St. Pauls, N.C., against the Robeson County Landfill expansion. Credit: Morgan Casey

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg

Air Force One departs from Joint Base Andrews in Prince Georges County, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025. Credit: Austin DeSisto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Months After a Jet Fuel Leak, No Agency Tested Waters Downstream of Piscataway Creek. So Community Groups Are Doing It Themselves.

By Aman Azhar

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 24 Starlink satellites soars over Santee, Calif., after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 18, 2025. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

By Bob Berwyn

Carbon monoxide and non-methane volatile organic compounds are named as major sources of indirect contributions to global warming in a new paper. Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

By Nina Sablan

A newly constructed coal-fired power plant is seen on Aug. 6, 2025, in Bijie, China. Credit: Tao Liang/Xinhua via Getty Images

Despite Record Renewable Growth, China Is Still Betting on Coal

By Andrew Liu

A pit in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, where the Railroad Commission plugged a wellbore that was previously gushing thousands of gallons of wastewater a minute. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town

By Martha Pskowski

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

By Lisa Sorg

Diane Wilson (right), Sharon Lavigne (left) and Nancy Bui display pictures of Vietnamese activists jailed for demanding reparations over the Formosa Plastics’ 2016 chemical spill disaster on May 28 in Taipei. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

A worker walks past molten steel at a factory in Huai'an, China, on July 22, 2025. Credit: CN-STR/AFP via Getty Images

Driven by Steel Production, China’s Belt and Road Construction Carries a Heavy Climate Cost

By Phil McKenna

Firefighters are barely visible as smoke from the Bain Fire fills the air on May 19 in Jurupa Valley, Calif. Credit: Gina Ferazzia/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Wildfires Are Reversing Years of US Air Quality Gains, Study Finds

By Avril Silva

The coal-fired Stanton Energy Center in Orlando, Fla. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Trump Administration Emergency Order to Keep Florida Coal Plant Running

By Amy Green

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