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A view of the Everglades on Miccosukee land in Florida. Credit: Lisette Morales McCabe/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Forever Chemicals’ Represent New Environmental Threat for Florida’s Fragile Everglades

By Amy Green

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, an industrial plant that emits benzene, particulate matter and other pollutants, in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on an early morning in October when atmospheric conditions trapped air pollution close to the ground.

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. The Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

By Lisa Song, photography by Annie Flanagan for ProPublica

A view of the coal-fired Coal Creek Station power plant near Underwood, N.D. Credit: Dan Koeck/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Burning Money’: Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants

By Anika Jane Beamer

A man wades through floodwater on Oct. 18, 2022, in Johi, Pakistan. Nearly one-third of Pakistan was deeply affected by flooding which hit the country in 2022. Credit: Getty Images

Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors

By Dana Drugmand

Data centers are energy-intensive, running servers around the clock to power streams of computer computations. Credit: Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images

A Company Eyes What Would Be North Carolina’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well

By Lisa Sorg

A view of Consumers Energy’s J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Mich. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far

By Marianne Lavelle

The settlement payout compensates customers for expenses in avoiding drinking water tainted with a “forever chemical” in October 2021. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

NJ Residents to Receive $4.9 Million Settlement for PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water

By Jon Hurdle

A view of Meta’s newly constructed data center on July 18, 2024, in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

AI Is Pushing Climate Goals Out of Reach, New Reports Say

By Jake Bolster

Coal and coke waste is seen piled high at an industrial site in Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In a ‘Disheartening’ Era, the Nation’s Former Top Mining Regulator Speaks Out

By Lee Hedgepeth

A view of StarPet’s 1.3 million-square-foot plastics factory in Asheboro, N.C. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Asheboro, North Carolina, Is Under Pressure to Control Discharges of a Toxic Chemical Into Drinking Water Supply

By Lisa Sorg

An aerial view of a partially collapsed home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on July 30, 2024, after flash floods hit the area. Vermont, along with New York, passed climate superfund laws last year, and similar legislation is pending in a handful of other states. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts

By Dana Drugmand

A liquefied natural gas carrier ship sits docked in the Calcasieu River near Cameron, La. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Environmentalists Sue Regulator Over Extension of Construction Permit for LNG Export Terminal in New Jersey

By Jon Hurdle

An aerial view of farmland in the Des Moines metropolitan area. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Iowa Counties Keep Water Quality Monitoring Afloat After State Funding Cuts

By Anika Jane Beamer

Brent Archer, a former Columbia Gas executive, speaks at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality public hearing on Sept. 8. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News.

A Pro-Dominion Grassroots Group Has Financial Ties—to Dominion

By Charles Paullin

Robert Taylor, co-founder of Concerned Citizens of St. John, stands in front of his home in Reserve, La. Credit: Emily Kask/AFP via Getty Images

Gulf South Residents and Green Groups Sue Trump and EPA Over Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions

By Keerti Gopal

Employees walk past the JBS plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. A new report lists the Brazilian meat giant as a top five greenhouse gas emitter. Credit: KC McGinnis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

By Georgina Gustin

A view of an operational Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. Credit: Eversource NH/CC BY-ND 2.0

New England Says Goodbye to Coal as Merrimack Station Powers Down

By Ryan Krugman

A fisherman observes the coal-fired Suralaya Power Station in Banten Province, Indonesia, on Oct. 31, 2023. Credit: Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing.

Story by Nicholas Kusnetz, data analysis by Peter Aldhous

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