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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Adam Currie is Campaign and Movement Support Manager at 350 Aotearoa. In this piece, prompted by a photograph of the...

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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 […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a trove of documents this week that shed new light on the air quality around the World Trade Center after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Some of these documents suggest, contrary to statements by former mayors Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, that harmful levels of asbestos remained in […]

The Trump administration is moving to accelerate oil and gas drilling across the Western Arctic with a new proposal that would slash environmental review and public input.  The proposal could bring industrial activity to wide areas of wilderness and subsistence hunting grounds for Alaska Natives before President Donald Trump leaves office. The move is the […]

A gas export terminal on the Gulf Coast of Texas has routinely violated air pollution permits for years with little consequences from state regulators, according to a report released this week by Oilfield Witness, an environmental watchdog.  The Texas-based activist group cited thousands of pages of documents and a month of optical gas monitoring in […]

Steelworks 80, a planned steel expansion that brought workers to northern Sweden, was derailed by a global downturn. Its story shows how communities built around the promise of investment are left with the consequences when it disappears.

Nobody seems to care anymore about the fears and threats that originally motivated the war on terror. Yet 25 years after September 11, 2001, that war continues to infect American life at home and abroad, more violently and menacingly than ever.

Hollywood’s unions fight for tax credits and jobs but not for the movies themselves. That has to change. Unions can take up policies that could save American cinema not only as a way to make a living but as a vital art form.

The artificial intelligence boom poses serious health risks while the Trump administration is dismantling crucial safeguards designed to protect the public, according to former officials at the federal agency responsible for environmental protection. A report released Thursday by the Environmental Protection Network—an organization led by former Environmental Protection Agency staffers—outlines hazards from the rapid rise […]

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party styles itself as populist and anti-elite. Yet it maintains close relationships with tech elites like Elon Musk, who was among the first to congratulate the party on Sunday’s election win.

Americans’ muted reaction to the quarter-century anniversary of 9/11 reveals a waning zeal for the American imperial project. We tolerate it only because we believe it can’t end. But it can.

WEBINAR REGISTRATION   TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — In spite of being located in the heart of the Great Lakes, Michigan’s water infrastructure is aging and persistently underfunded, and too many Michiganders live without clean, safe drinking water. On September 21, Flow Water Advocates will present a special live webinar on new legislation to address these... Read more »

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September 11, 2001: Smoke billows from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan after a Boeing 767 hits each tower. Photo: Michael Foran CC-by-2.0 Jannis Hagmann interviews Gilbert Achcar on the impact of 9/11 THE ATTACKS OF 11 September 2001 fundamentally altered US foreign policy and triggered a series of wars that have reshaped… Continue reading The Iraq War Shattered the Promise of a New World Order

Jon Rosenthal, a Democratic state representative from Houston, is facing off against Bo French, a far-right Republican culture warrior from Fort Worth, for a seat on the commission that regulates the oil and gas industry in Texas.  In an interview with Inside Climate News during a campaign visit to El Paso this month, Rosenthal shared […]

In 1998, unusually hot ocean temperatures stressed corals worldwide, causing them to expel the microalgae living within their tissues that normally nourish the tiny animals and give them color. Over the next year, more than 20 percent of the world’s reefs turned white during the first global coral bleaching event on record.  Fortunately, some of […]

CLEMMONS, N.C.—The man came out of nowhere, but he seemed to be on their side.  Dozens of residents of Clemmons, a small village south of Winston-Salem, were alarmed about a proposed asphalt plant that could be built in their neighborhood, Rolling Green Village.  The man, who said his name was Chris Sanderson, told neighbors he […]