Super-Pollutants
El Paso Challenges Oil Refinery Permit
By Martha Pskowski
A Common Fishing Practice Called Bottom Trawling Releases Significant Amounts of CO2 Into Earth’s Atmosphere
By Georgina Gustin
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
First Uranium Mines to Dig in the US in Eight Years Begin Operations Near Grand Canyon
By Wyatt Myskow
How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma
Advocates Welcome EPA’s Proposed Pollution Restrictions On Trash Incineration. But Environmental Justice Concerns Remain
By Aman Azhar
American Petroleum Institute Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure
By Marianne Lavelle
Plan for Gas Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Draws Muted Response from Regulators, But Outrage From Green Groups
By Peter Mantius
David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking
By Jake Bolster
Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?
By Phil McKenna
A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?
By ICN Staff
‘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
In Alabama, What Does It Take to Shut Down a Surface Mine Operating Without Permits?
By Lee Hedgepeth
Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress Continues to Block Farms From Reporting Emissions Anyway
By Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna
EPA Begins a Review Process That Could Bring an End to Toxic, Flammable Vinyl Chloride
By Kiley Bense