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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.
“Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small timescales.”
“We’re asking for something so simple. Something that could save so many lives.”
Fossil fuel-backed groups say offshore wind hurts whales. But some Republicans still embrace the industry's economic benefits.
The bigger question about Joe Manchin’s fossil fuel provisions is if they’ll succeed on the senator’s own terms.
As climate disasters intensify, poor emergency management puts Indigenous peoples at higher risk.
Trains carry hazardous chemicals everyday. They're also dangerously unregulated.
“The coming decades will not only be hotter, but sicker.”
Companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade, an Inside Climate News analysis found.