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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

The smokestack of the Wheelabrator Incinerator in Baltimore. Credit: Eva Claire Hambach/AFP via Getty Images

Advocates Welcome EPA’s Proposed Pollution Restrictions On Trash Incineration. But Environmental Justice Concerns Remain

By Aman Azhar

An oil pumpjack stands idle near homes in February 2023 in Signal Hill, California. The production of oil and natural gas in the U.S. soared to record heights within the past year. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

American Petroleum Institute Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure

By Marianne Lavelle

Workers in front of the Cricket Valley Power Plant in Wingdale, New York. Southern Tier Solutions wants to build up to a dozen new natural gas-fueled power plants in the state. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Plan for Gas Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Draws Muted Response from Regulators, But Outrage From Green Groups

By Peter Mantius

In July 2002, then-Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker, second from right, listens to a progress report on rescue efforts at Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania. At right is Joseph A. Braffoni, of the Bureau of Deep Mine Safety, second from left is Larry Winckler, center is David Hess, Pennsylvania secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and at left is Jeffery Stanchek a mine rescue instructor for the DEP. They were coordinating efforts to reach nine miners trapped for three days. Credit: Gene J. Puskar/ AFP via Getty Images.

David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

By Jake Bolster

Dairy cows gather at a farm in Visalia, Calif. on July 5, 2022. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?

By Phil McKenna

A San Joaquin Valley dairy farm is viewed from above on April 13, 2023, in Visalia, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

The GAF roofing shingles factory in West Dallas on Dec. 13. The factory reclassified itself as minor and averted public participation requirements in 2022. Credit: Shelby Tauber/Inside Climate News

‘Major’ Problem in Texas: How Big Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It

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

The sun sets over an unpermitted surface mining operation in Winston County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Alabama, What Does It Take to Shut Down a Surface Mine Operating Without Permits?

By Lee Hedgepeth

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