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Lawyers representing the city of Baltimore filed a lawsuit claiming Coca-Cola, along with PepsiCo and six other companies, used deceptive business practices and created a public nuisance. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Declaring an Epidemic of ‘Toxic Litter,’ Baltimore Targets Plastic Makers and Packaging in the Latest Example of Plastics Litigation

By James Bruggers

Rusty Bell, director of Gillette College’s Office of Economic Transformation, and Justin Loyka, energy program director with the Nature Conservancy in Wyoming, discuss potential solar sighting on coal mines near Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Mining the Sun: Some in the Wyoming Epicenter of the Coal Industry Hope to Sustain Its Economy With Renewables

By Jake Bolster

Some streams and rivers in Alaska’s remote Brooks Mountain Range are turning orange. Researchers think melting permafrost may be the culprit. Credit: Josh Koch/USGS

Q&A: What’s in the Water of Alaska’s Rusting Rivers, and What’s Climate Change Got to Do With it?

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

An aerial view of kids playing at a school near the metallurgical complex in La Oroya, Peru. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: The U.N.’s New Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Environment Previously Won a Landmark Case in Peru

By Katie Surma

Pump jacks operate in a Permian Basin oilfield near Eddy County, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

New Mexico Debates What to Do With Oil and Gas Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski

A view of Beirut shows oil tanks throughout the Lebanon capital on Nov. 1, 2023. Credit: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: Choked by Diesel Pollution From Generators, Cancer Rates in Beirut Surge by 30 Percent

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A view of the POET ethanol plant in Lake Crystal, Minn. Credit: Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Biofuel Refineries Are Releasing Toxic Air Pollutants in Farm Communities Across the US

By Georgina Gustin

Curtis Bay residents joined activists and environmental advocates to protest fugitive coal dust escaping open-air coal pits, and asked the Maryland Department of the Environment to include stricter pollution controls in the forthcoming permit for CSX operation. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

South Baltimore Communities Press City, State Regulators for Stricter Pollution Controls on Coal Export Operations

By Aman Azhar

Water flows from an orphaned oil well on Schuyler Wight’s ranch in Pecos County, Texas. Credit: Courtesy of Schuyler Wight

Another Blowout Adds to Mystery of Permian Basin Water Pressure

By Dylan Baddour

Ninety-six-year-old Laura Reed Norwood remembers what McIntosh was like before the chemical plants arrived. Credit: Elizabeth DeRamus/Al Jazeera

Living and Dying in the Shadow of Chemical Plants

By Lanier Isom, Al Jazeera

Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Jorge Buxadé, a Spanish candidate for the EU parliamentary election, speaks during a campaign rally on June 2 in Murcia, Spain. Buxadé leads the European delegation of Vox, a far-right party in Spain. Credit: Edu Botella/Europa Press via Getty Images

Europe’s Swing to the Right Threatens Global Climate Policy

By Bob Berwyn

An oil pumpjack sits near homes in Signal Hill, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Oil Town Chose a Firm with Oil Industry Ties to Review Impacts of an Unprecedented 20-Year Drilling Permit Extension

By Liza Gross

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a special address on climate action at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Wednesday, World Environment Day. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

UN Secretary-General Calls for Ban on Fossil Fuel Advertising, Says Next 18 Months Are Critical for Climate Action

By Keerti Gopal

A collection of plastic pellets known as nurdles that washed up on a beach in Charleston, South Carolina. Credit: Andrew Wunderley/Charleston Waterkeeper

Lawsuits Targeting Plastic Pollution Pile Up as Frustrated Citizens and States Seek Accountability

By James Bruggers

President Joe Biden receives an operational briefing from EPA officials on the response and recovery effort at the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment site on Feb. 16. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Ohio and Pennsylvania Residents Affected by the East Palestine Train Derailment Say Their ‘Basic Needs’ Are Still Not Being Met

By Kiley Bense

At a 2023 rally across the highway from Seneca Meadows Inc., Seneca Lake Guardian co-founder Yvonne Taylor called for the facility to be shut down. Credit: Peter Mantius/WaterFront

In New York, Attorney General Letitia James’ Narrow View of the State’s Green Amendment

By Peter Mantius

The smokestack of the WIN Waste Incinerator is seen near Interstate 95 in Baltimore. Credit: Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images

Advocates Ask EPA to Investigate Baltimore City for Harming Disinvested Communities

By Aman Azhar

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