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Pipeline company to pay $230 million for oil spill

Plains All American Pipeline reached a $230 million settlement with California fishers and coastal property owners last week, agreeing to compensate them for damages caused by a devastating oil spill in 2015.

Joseph Winters May 18, 2022

A woman in a baseball cap and red coveralls points to a large puddle.

Oil and gas companies spill millions of gallons of wastewater in Texas

Companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade, an Inside Climate News analysis found.

Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News & Peter Aldhous Accountability November 5, 2023

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gives a press conference standing at a podium with his fish in the air and a crown behind him

In Brazil, Lula vows to halt deforestation — but it won’t be easy

The president-elect faces deep political division, and Bolsonaro still has two more months in power.

Blanca Begert Uncategorized November 1, 2022

iPhone with cracked screen; top half is turning into square pixels that are floating off of the device

Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow.

Under pressure from shareholders, Big Tech is finally making device repair easier.

Maddie Stone Technology April 29, 2022

Papers with medical writing on them and photographs including employee ID badges

An invisible, toxic chemical has been poisoning residents in Puerto Rico for decades

An industrial worker got one whiff of ethylene oxide. Twenty years later, he still hasn’t recovered — and his community is searching for answers.

Lylla Younes, Naveena Sadasivam, & Joaquín A. Rosado Lebrón Accountability August 22, 2024

Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy nations like it or not

“A bunch of countries and corporations are responsible for the mess. They have to bloody clean it up. As simple as that.”

Naveena Sadasivam International October 11, 2022

Collage: newspaper clippings with headlines about drought; photos of a yard with brown grass and a hose, cracked earth, a faucet dripping water, a field of dead almond trees, and a mountain with barely any snowpack on it; a circle made of wavy yellow lines is on top of the center of the collage

How climate change spurs megadroughts

The curious connection between the sky’s “thirstiness” and the dry spell devastating the western U.S.

Shannon Osaka Drought August 9, 2022

California communities are fighting the last battery recycling plant in the West — and its toxic legacy

Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back.

Molly Peterson Accountability April 22, 2024

A droopy stalk of wheat silhouetted in the sunset.

Heatflation: How sizzling temperatures drive up food prices

As heat waves strike Europe and China, crops are withering.

Kate Yoder Agriculture July 15, 2022

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