Republicans in Congress are continuing their efforts to shield the fossil fuel industry from legal liability for its role in unleashing the heat-trapping gases linked to a cascade of deadly, record-setting disasters across the globe. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to debate and vote on a bill introduced in April by Rep. […]
Inside Climate News•By Georgina Gustin7h ago
Every three days someone is killed for defending nature. In 2025, watchdog group Global Witness documented 124 such deaths worldwide, a toll researchers say is likely only a fraction of the total number because repression and armed conflict make many deaths impossible to verify. The victims included Indigenous people, small-scale farmers and community organizers peacefully […]
Inside Climate News•By Katie Surma7h ago
A Trump administration rule eviscerating widespread habitat protections for endangered species just went into effect. First proposed in April, the rule rescinds the long-held definition for a single word—harm—under the Endangered Species Act, a landmark law enacted in 1973 to conserve the country’s imperiled animals and plants. This seemingly tiny tweak has profound consequences, clearing […]
Inside Climate News•By Kiley Price8h ago
Philip Landrigan learned about the attacks on 9/11 the way much of the world did when he was chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York: by watching television. “We were distressed that it was a terrorist attack,” he said in an interview on Friday, the 25th […]
Inside Climate News•By Alissa de Chassey16h ago
Before its abrupt dismantling last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development was one of the world’s largest funders of conservation, climate resilience and other environmental programs. The money aimed to curb deforestation in the tropics, help farmers and communities cope with extreme weather, increase clean energy development and more. Now, a year and a […]
Inside Climate News•By Nicholas Kusnetz21h ago
IRONWOOD FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz.—Cassandra Becerra didn’t know it when she first arrived in the U.S. from Mexico as a three-year-old, but she was already an environmentalist. Her family didn’t have much money, but they were rich in the abundant public lands that make up Arizona Becerra remembers a childhood filled with fishing at the […]
Inside Climate News•By Wyatt Myskow21h ago
Second time’s the charm? On Aug. 25, Maine’s Public Utilities Commission selected winning proposals in a years-long effort to turn more of northern Maine’s howling winds into energy that can power population centers in the southern part of the state and region. The PUC selected one developer to build 800 megawatts of new onshore wind […]
Inside Climate News•By Nathaniel Eisen21h ago
On the heels of the hottest summer on record and a United Nations report warning that global temperatures are likely to push climate risks to “increasingly dangerous heights,” the Trump administration overturned most of a Biden-era rule limiting climate pollution from power plants, the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency announced […]
Inside Climate News•By Liza Gross15 Sept
The Iowa Utilities Commission is moving toward hearings on the second phase of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, which would add hundreds of miles of lines to a project already stuck in a legal quagmire. Summit Carbon Solutions initially intended to carry CO2 from ethanol plants across the Corn Belt to North Dakota for underground […]
Inside Climate News•By Anika Jane Beamer14 Sept
Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. In this episode, we delve into how President Donald Trump’s environmental policy rollbacks are impacting ordinary people. In Pennsylvania, a jet fuel pipeline spill has tainted the drinking water source for more than 200 homes in Pennsylvania and homeowners continue to struggle […]
Inside Climate News•By Jake Bolster, Kiley Price, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle14 Sept
On the night of July 6, a storm moved over northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The boreal forest there, composed of species like balsam fir, spruce and pine, was extremely dry after a flash drought and unusually warm temperatures sapped the trees of their moisture. As the storm blew across the […]
Inside Climate News•By Susan Cosier14 Sept
Before Iowa was the nation’s most wind-powered state, it generated nearly all of its electricity with coal. Since 2000, the fossil fuel’s role in the state’s power mix has diminished as utilities built a massive fleet of wind turbines that now provides nearly two-thirds of the state’s power. But as the artificial intelligence boom drives […]
Inside Climate News•By Anika Jane Beamer14 Sept
Wired for Profit: Seventh in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, pollution and politics in the Yellowhammer State. When Alabama lawmakers left for spring break during the 2026 legislative session, many of them knew something had to be done. Landmark legislation curbing the profits of the state’s influential electric utility, […]
Inside Climate News•By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth13 Sept
Wired for Profit: Sixth in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, pollution and politics in the Yellowhammer State. Mack Butler insists he’s not angry about how it all turned out. “That’s just how it goes in the Legislature sometimes,” he says, leaning back behind the desk at his office in […]
Inside Climate News•By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth13 Sept
On the night of Feb. 22, 1998, tornadoes tore through Central Florida while most of the region slept. By dawn, 42 people were dead; to date, it is the deadliest tornado outbreak in the state’s history. Nearly all those who died lived in the same kind of housing: mobile homes and RV parks around Kissimmee, […]
Inside Climate News•By Kate Waxman13 Sept
DOUBLE SPRINGS, Ala.—As 59-year-old Pam Benton sat handcuffed to a cold bench inside the Winston County Courthouse, shame flooded over her. All she could think about, she later explained, was what her grandchildren may soon believe about their “nana.” “Only bad people go to jail,” Benton told Inside Climate News. “That’s what a lot of […]
Inside Climate News•By Lee Hedgepeth12 Sept
Michigan’s Norwich Plains is a stretch of unbroken wilderness in the state’s Upper Peninsula dominated by northern hardwood forest, with sugar maples and old-growth aspens that provide habitat for endangered species like the eastern gray wolf and the American martin. There are beaver ponds, meadows and miles of trout streams that can all be seen […]
Inside Climate News•By Sarah Mattalian12 Sept
More than 60 advocacy groups from across Maryland are urging leaders in Annapolis to put a temporary pause on new data center proposals until their impacts on the environment and communities can be fully understood and policies are in place to address any harms. The move comes after 14 of 24 local jurisdictions in Maryland […]
Inside Climate News•By Aman Azhar12 Sept
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Emily Renkey from the Marmot Project. You may have heard of Fat Bear Week, the annual contest where the public gets to vote on who they think is the fattest bear gorging on salmon in Katmai National […]
Inside Climate News•Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth12 Sept
A federal appeals court has struck down the Trump administration’s use of emergency powers to require a coal-fired power plant in Michigan to remain open, ruling that the U.S. Department of Energy exceeded its authority. The 3-0 decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a rebuke of the administration’s […]
Inside Climate News•By Dan Gearino, Keerti Gopal, Marianne Lavelle11 Sept