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Oil pumpjacks dot the landscape on the outskirts of Taft, Kern County, California. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager

Chicago is suing big fossil fuel companies, alleging the impact of flooding and other climate-related events has caused great damage. Credit: Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Chicago Sues 5 Oil Companies, Accusing Them of Climate Change Destruction, Fraud

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Sonya Sanders poses for a portrait outside her home in Philadelphia on Dec. 19, 2023. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

To Live and Die in Philadelphia: Sonya Sanders Grew Up Next Door to a Giant Refinery. She’s Still Suffering From Environmental Trauma

By Victoria St. Martin

The Francis Scott Key Bridge crosses Bear Creek and the Patapsco River. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Proposed Cleanup of a Baltimore County Superfund Site Stirs Questions and Concerns in a Historical, Disinvested Community

By Aman Azhar

A drilling rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside of Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: New Rules in Pennsylvania Require Drillers to Disclose Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

A truck loaded with coal drives away from the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in the Powder River basin. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Wyoming, Slow To Take Federal Clean Energy Funds, Gambles State Money on Carbon Sequestration and Hydrogen Schemes to Keep Fossil Fuels Flowing

By Jake Bolster

The Orlando Utilities Commission, which operates the Stanton Energy Center, said the facility is compliant and has not received any word from the EPA indicating otherwise. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

EPA Reports ‘Widespread Noncompliance’ With the Nation’s First Regulations on Toxic Coal Ash

By Amy Green

Activists stage a protest outside the Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 15, 2016 in Washington, DC. Activists urged the EPA to shut down operations of Southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon storage facility, which had been leaking huge amount of methane, sickening residents in the neighboring Porter Ranch, Calif. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Why a Natural Gas Storage Climate ‘Disaster’ Could Happen Again

By Taylor Kate Brown, Floodlight

A coke storage area is seen as steam rises from the quench towers at the Clairton Coke Works on Jan. 21, 2020, in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

In a Steel Town Outside Pittsburgh, an Old Fight Over Air Quality Drags On

By Kiley Bense

A house in the Hillcrest neighborhood in Corpus on Feb. 7, 2022. Houses in this neighborhood have co-existed with oil refineries like Flint Hills that spew air pollutants for decades. Credit: Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Tribune

Companies in Texas Exploit ‘Loopholes,’ Attribute 1 Million Pounds of Air Pollution to Recent Freezing Weather

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

A tar sands mining operation near Fort McKay, Alberta. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

Canada’s Tar Sands Are a Much Larger Source of Air Pollution Than Previously Thought, Study Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Coal ash is the primary waste product of burning coal to produce electricity at facilities like this one in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash

By Lee Hedgepeth

Sen. Joe Manchin arrives for a “Politics & Eggs” event at St. Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Jan. 12 in Manchester, N.H. Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Sen. Joe Manchin Eyes a Possible Third Party Presidential Run

By Phil McKenna

Marathon Petroleum's El Paso refinery contributes to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

El Paso Challenges Oil Refinery Permit

By Martha Pskowski

Fishermen sort their catch from a trawl fishery on a fishing boat in the Port of Molfetta on Dec. 1, 2023. Credit: Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Common Fishing Practice Called Bottom Trawling Releases Significant Amounts of CO2 Into Earth’s Atmosphere

By Georgina Gustin

An oil pumpjack in Kern County, California. Credit: Harika Maddala

California’s Oil Country Faces an ‘Existential’ Threat. Kern County Is Betting on the Carbon Removal Industry to Save It

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News, and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

The UMTRA Project, a U.S. Department of Energy's remedial operation to remove radioactive uranium tailings from a former mill site is viewed on Oct. 7, 2023 near Moab, Utah. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

First Uranium Mines to Dig in the US in Eight Years Begin Operations Near Grand Canyon

By Wyatt Myskow

Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on March 22, 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

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