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Founded in 2007, Inside Climate News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that provides essential reporting and analysis on climate change, energy and the environment, for the public and for decision makers.

Climate activists reluctantly back John Fetterman in tightening Pennsylvania Senate race

Inside Climate NewsOctober 7, 2022

“I’m going to vote for John Fetterman because the Democratic Party has deprived me of better options,” said one voter concerned about climate change.

Climate ChangeEnergyPolitics

Homer City power plant in Indiana County, Pennsylvania generated enough electricity in 2014 to power a million homes. Photo: Reid Frazier

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling: A loss of authority or a lesson in ‘be careful what you wish for’?

Marianne LavelleJuly 6, 2022

The decision in West Virginia v. EPA could result in more expensive and restrictive carbon regulation or the erosion of agencies’ ability to address society’s most pressing needs.

Climate ChangeEnergyPoliticsYour Environment Update

The peak of a 150-foot tall coal waste pile

Coal powered the industrial revolution. It left behind an ‘absolutely massive’ environmental catastrophe

James BruggersJune 24, 2022

Scenes from the end of coal: A blasted mountaintop in Kentucky, an underground inferno in Pennsylvania, slowly dying maples in New Hampshire and a toxic pile of waste in Florida.

ConservationEnergyWaterYour Environment Update

Joe Biden’s Evolving Climate Policy

Reid FrazierAugust 7, 2020

Joe Biden’s climate plan has become more aggressive. But is it enough to limit the worst outcomes of runaway climate change?

2020 ElectionClimate ChangePodcastsPoliticsYour Environment Update

A Coal Ash Spill Made These Workers Sick. Now, They’re Fighting for Compensation.

James BruggersDecember 5, 2018

Some 30 people who cleaned up the ash have died with ailments that can be linked to exposure to toxic elements of coal ash, and more than 250 are sick or dying.

Environmental JusticeHealthPollution

ORSANCO Moves to Eliminate Its Water Quality Standards for The Ohio River

Julie GrantJune 15, 2018

The multi-state commission that protects the Ohio River says its standards are redundant to other state and federal regulations.

PollutionWater

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Trump on Earth

Trump’s EPA head vowed to roll back dozens of regulations. What impact will that have on public health?

‘A reckless dismantling’: EPA employees and supporters march in Philly to protest cuts

Farmers in Trump country were counting on clean energy grants. Then the government moved the goalposts.