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The Amazon Fort Powhatan Solar Farm in Disputanta, Virginia.

US emissions rose in 2022. Here’s why that’s not as bad as it sounds.

As renewables overtook coal, economic growth outpaced the rise in carbon emissions.

Jake Bittle Energy January 10, 2023

Report: 90% of all U.S. coal plants are contaminating groundwater

And nearly half have no plans to clean up their mess.

Lylla Younes Regulation November 4, 2022

Smoke billows from smoke stacks at coal burning power plant.

EPA’s proposed air pollution standards for soot could save thousands of lives

Health experts say it doesn’t go far enough to limit the deadly pollutant.

Jessie Blaeser Health January 9, 2023

digital collage of paper mill and buildings with river and billboard set against background of mountains

As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices

On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.

Katie Myers Solutions April 27, 2023

Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.

Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

Maddie Stone Accountability May 8, 2024

This year’s hurricane season has been eerily quiet. Will it last?

The season is already near its peak, but climate change means a monster storm could strike anytime.

Jake Bittle Extreme Weather September 7, 2022

US emissions cost the world $1.9 trillion in economic damages

A new study pinpoints the economic cost of emissions, paving the way for international legal action.

Diana Kruzman Climate July 13, 2022

Cases of bottled water are handed out at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi.

In Jackson, Mississippi, a water crisis that won’t end

“It’s a red war on a blue city, and it’s a white war on a Black city."

Lylla Younes Equity August 17, 2023

An aerial view of a snow-covered Montana town in the foothills of a mountain, with a mine scraped out in the foothills of the mountain

Newly revealed records show how the EPA sided with polluters in a small Montana mining town

Documents detail how the EPA coordinated with the very companies they’re supposed to regulate by attacking researchers and smearing peer-reviewed science.

Wilson Criscione, InvestigateWest Health February 26, 2023

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