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A woman dressed in black pants and an olive green blouse addresses people in the yard of a home in rural Alabama with a failing sanitation septic system.

A landmark investigation brings environmental justice to rural Alabama

Federal investigators found that Alabama neglected a Black community's sewage and sanitation needs — then punished them for the results.

Katie Myers Equity May 8, 2023

Permitting reform is back. Is the latest deal worth it?

Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso offer a devil’s bargain: new power lines for clean energy transmission at the cost of more fossil fuels.

Lylla Younes & Gautama Mehta Regulation August 2, 2024

What Tesla’s massive image problem means for the world’s transition to EVs

Tesla has long been a leader in the electric vehicles market. Now it's facing mounting protests and plummeting sales.

Paul Krantz Transportation April 2, 2025

Extreme heat drives up food prices. Just how bad will it get?

New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.

Kate Yoder Economics March 27, 2024

An illustration of a group of people cooking a communal meal inside a rectangular vignette. Outside of the rectangle, storm-damaged houses and crops show hurricane destruction. Above, dark clouds hover over everything.

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow

Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.

Ayurella Horn-Muller Food and Agriculture September 3, 2025

New EPA watchdog report says refineries can’t police themselves

Many of these refineries are located in and around neighborhoods of color.

Lylla Younes Regulation September 18, 2023

People walk on the sidewalk holding picket signs that say 'Homegrown on strike!'

Heat waves are making restaurant kitchens unsafe. Workers are fighting back.

As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.

Frida Garza Labor June 10, 2024

A car races ahead of a wildfire, with orange, smoky skies in the background

‘Weather whiplash’ helped drive this year’s California wildfires

Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires.

Caroline Marshall Reinhart, Inside Climate News Wildfires September 14, 2024

A worker on roof reaches out for a solar panel being handed to him by another worker.

How big-box stores and schools can help marginalized communities go solar

Installing solar arrays on commercial and public buildings could bring renewable energy to two-thirds of the nation's disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Energy April 4, 2024

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