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Louisiana and Mississippi have the highest rates of low birth weight and preterm birth in the country, and new evidence suggests industrial pollution could play a role. Credit: Getty Images

Louisiana’s Toxic Air Is Linked to Low-Weight and Pre-Term Births

Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, a $10 billion plastics plant built by ExxonMobil and SABIC, started operations this year on 1,300 acres of previously undeveloped land in San Patricio County, across the bay from Corpus Christi, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Gulf Coast Petrochemical Buildout Draws Billions in Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations

By Dylan Baddour

Nathan Harrington, who leads Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, carries a broken tire visible from the road to his truck. Credit: Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer

DC’s Tire-Dumping Epidemic

Kayla Benjamin, The Washington Informer via Report for America

A Presidente Supermarket employee bags groceries in Miami, Fla. A proposed statewide measure in Florida would block cities from banning single-use plastic items. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Q&A: The Latest in the Battle Over Plastic Bag Bans

By Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Formosa Plastic Corp's complex on Lavaca Bay in Point Comfort, Texas, pictured on June 7, 2023. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

New Lake Will Fuel Petrochemical Expansion on Texas Coast

By Dylan Baddour

Attendees of the microfactory launch event inspect plastic pellets produced during the recycling process at the Goodwill Retail Operations Center in Tempe, Ariz. on Feb. 6. Credit: ASU Knowledge Enterprise/Andy DeLisle

Could ‘Microfactories’ Pave a New Path Forward for Plastic Recycling?

By Wyatt Myskow

The site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 14, 2023. Credit: Rebecca Kiger/The Washington Post via Getty Images

One Year Later, Pennsylvanians Living Near the East Palestine Train Derailment Site Say They’re Still Sick

By Kiley Bense

A boat transporting recycling waste sails on the Upper New York Bay between Staten Island and Manhattan on Dec 29, 2023. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Eye a Potential Win with New York Packaging Bill

By James Bruggers

Bales of plastic bottles at a recycling center in San Jose, Calif. Credit: Aric Crabb/Digital First Media/Bay Area News via Getty Images

A Battle Over Plastic Recycling Claims Heats Up in California Over ‘Truth in Labeling’ Law

By James Bruggers

Mobile city workers shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

During Mardi Gras, Tons of Fun Comes With Tons of Toxic Beads

By Lee Hedgepeth

A liter of bottled water may contain nearly a quarter million pieces of the smallest particles of plastic. Credit: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images

Diet for a Sick Planet: Studies Find More Plastic in Our Food and Bottled Water

By James Bruggers

Plastic additives called bisphenols are found in a dizzying array of products—like canned food linings. Credit: Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

The proposed site of SOBE Thermal Energy Systems' tire pyrolysis chemical plant in Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in April 2019. The following month he signed the Pollution Prevention for Our Future Act regulating toxic chemicals in Washington state. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Washington Law Attempts to Fill the Void in Federal Regulation of Hazardous Chemicals

By Emma Peterson

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 Ashberry Landfill in Opp, Alabama. “There are mountains of uncovered tires at the facility,” a nearby resident complained in 2019, according to a record of the complaint. “The mosquito issue has been so bad that residents are having to stay indoors more.” Credit: Alabama Department of Environmental Management

An Alabama Landfill Has Repeatedly Violated State Environmental Laws. State Regulators Waited Almost 20 Years to Crack Down

By Lee Hedgepeth

Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the train derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Credit: Michael Swensen/Getty Images

EPA Begins a Review Process That Could Bring an End to Toxic, Flammable Vinyl Chloride

By Kiley Bense

The site of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment on Feb. 17, 2023. The train derailment happened on Feb. 3 in which 38 cars derailed, including 11 containing hazardous materials, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate for several days. Credit: US Environmental Protection Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

From Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania to Toxic Waste in Texas, Tracking Vinyl Chloride Production in the U.S.

By Kiley Bense

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