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Tribal Members Journey to Washington Push for Reauthorization of Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

Diseases connected to uranium mining and nuclear testing continue to plague the Navajo and other tribes. The bill continuing the help they get dealing with the illnesses is stalled in the U.S. House.

By Noel Lyn Smith

Supporters of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act sing about saving the program on Sept. 22 before leaving Albuquerque, New Mexico for Washington, D.C. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News
Children play soccer next to active oil wells in Los Angeles County’s Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the nation. Credit: Gary Kavanagh

California Governor Signs Bills to Tighten Restrictions on Oil and Gas Drillers

By Liza Gross

An adipic acid plant in Liaoyang, in northeast China's Liaoning Province, owned by Liaoyang Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of Petrochina. Credit: Yang Qing/Xinhua/Yang Qing via Getty Images

Focus on the ‘Forgotten Greenhouse Gas’ Intensifies as All Eyes Are on the U.S. and China to Curb Pollution

By Phil McKenna

A group of activists with Climate Defiance take the stage during the New York Times’ Climate Forward event on Wednesday. Credit: Ken Schles/Climate Defiance

Activists Disrupt Occidental Petroleum CEO’s Interview at New York Times Climate Event

By Keerti Gopal, Jake Bolster

Crimson Oak Grove Resources has a long history of safety violations, according to state and federal records. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Coal Miner Dies at Alabama Mine With Dozens of Recent Safety Citations

By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers

Plastic waste piles up along the bank of the San Gabriel River just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean in Seal Beach, California, on Dec. 13, 2022. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Alleging Decades of Lies, California Sues ExxonMobil Over Plastic Pollution Crisis

By James Bruggers

Strikers with Fridays for Future marched from Foley Square in Manhattan to Borough Hall in Brooklyn, New York City. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

New York City Youth Strike Against Fossil Fuels and Greenwashing in Advance of NYC Climate Week

By Keerti Gopal

A combine harvests corn into a grain wagon on a farm in Iowa. Credit: Curt Maas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

North America’s Biggest Food Companies Are Struggling to Lower Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

A cow stands next to a non-producing oil well in Caldwell County, Texas. Gas was venting out of the well even though oil is not being produced. Credit: Courtesy of Abigail Edgar

Study Finds High Levels of Hydrogen Sulfide in Central Texas Oilfield

By Martha Pskowski

The Environmental Working Group lawsuit accuses Tyson of deceiving consumers by failing to provide a realistic plan to reduce its emissions or even measure them. Credit: Richard Hamilton Smith /Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Tyson Foods Sued Over Emissions Reduction Promises

By Georgina Gustin

A view of a fracking site in Marianna, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

A Company’s Struggles Raise Questions About the Future of Lithium Extraction in Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense

For years, the Goodyear chemical plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been releasing large quantities of a carcinogen with the state's knowledge. Regulators say they're working on a solution, but some wonder why it's taking so long. Credit: Emyle Watkins/WBFO

A Dangerous Chemical Is Fouling Niagara Falls’ Air. New York State Hasn’t Put a Stop to It

By Jim Morris and Emyle Watkins

Cattle graze in an area near recent deforestation in the state of Acre, Brazil on July 14, 2022. Credit: Rafael Vilela/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil

By Georgina Gustin

The sun sets behind the mountains at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, shrouded in smoke from regional wildfires on July 14, 2021. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

With Wyoming’s Regional Haze Plan ‘Partially Rejected,’ Conservationists Await Agency’s Final Proposal

By Jake Bolster

The cockpit view of the eXternal Vision System inside NASA’s Quesst aircraft, the X-59. Credit: Garry Tice/Lockheed Martin

Low Boom, High Pollution? NASA Readies for Supersonic Test Flight

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

People walk in front of the Goldman Sachs Headquarters in New York City. Goldman Sachs left the Climate Action 100+ investor group last month. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress

Departures From Climate Action 100+ Highlight U.S.-Europe Divide Over ESG Investing

By Mathilde Augustin

Sonia Sanchez, a notary in Buttonwillow, California, has helped organize local opposition to a proposed carbon storage project in Kern County. Credit: Joshua Yeager/KVPR

Proposals to Build California’s First Carbon Storage Facilities Face a Key Test

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

A commuter wears a “slightly satiric” gas mask in Los Angeles in 1966. By the 1940s, smog from vehicle exhaust had gotten so bad that the county formed the nation’s first air pollution control district. Credit: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

California Slashed Harmful Vehicle Emissions, but People of Color and Overburdened Communities Continue to Breathe the Worst Air

By Liza Gross

People walk in the Ivy City neighborhood of Washington, D.C. on May 6, 2019. Credit: Lindsay Ferraris/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollutants, Known as PM2.5, Have Led to Disproportionately High Deaths Among Black Americans

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

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