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The systemic racial and economic inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities around the globe.

In a new papal exhortation on climate change issued in advance of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis challenged U.N. negotiators to strengthen the agreement they reached in Paris in 2015, to include “binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.” Credit: Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images.

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

By James Bruggers

Brad Rogers, left, and Rev. Richard Partlow, the interim executive director of Cherry Hill Development Corporation, one of the community partners of the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership, on their way to a meeting at the Cherry Hill Strong's office nearby. Credit: Aman Azhar / Inside Climate News

In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain

By Aman Azhar

A mural of Malcolm X stands in Prichard, Alabama, near the offices of Prichard Water. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News.

First Floods, Now Fires: How Neglect and Fraud Hobbled an Alabama Town

By Lee Hedgepeth

Chauncey Goss and his family spent weeks clearing hurricane debris from their property, as shown in this photograph taken shortly after Ian struck. Photo courtesy Chauncey Goss

For Sanibel, the Recovery from Hurricane Ian Will Be Years in the Making

By Amy Green

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is supporting the Decarbonization Network of Appalachia, one of two groups in the Western Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia region that have been asked by the federal government to submit final applications for so-called hydrogen hubs. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

By Jon Hurdle

An Afghan scientist gathers water and soil samples at a water outflow from Bagram Airfield, formerly America's largest military base in Afghanistan. Credit: Kern Hendricks

America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up

By Lynzy Billing

Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

Environmental activists protest outside City Hall in June.

Chicago Mayor Unveils Reforms to Fight Environmental Racism

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

A Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital in Miami Beach. A study found that some zip codes in Miami had more than four times the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations related to heat compared with other neighborhoods, a disparity that correlated somewhat with the distribution of formerly redlined neighborhoods. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

In Miami, It’s No Coincidence Marginalized Neighborhoods Are Hotter

By Amy Green

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

Maya Etienne at the Little Calumet River Prairie and Wetlands Nature Preserve, in Gary, IN. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson

Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters

By Aydali Campa, Phil McKenna and Victoria St. Martin

Cares volunteer Laurel Paltier, left, works with Baltimore residents looking for help with their electricity bills at the GEDCO building in Baltimore on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Credit: Jessica Gallagher/The Baltimore Banner.

Laurel Peltier Took On Multi-Million Dollar Private Energy Companies Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households, One Victim at a Time

By Aman Azhar

"This is a particularly stupid reservoir," says rancher Deirdre Macnab, who opposes the Wolf Creek Reservoir project, "and we can’t afford stupid reservoir projects.” Credit: Lee Pruitt

As the Colorado River Declines, Some Upstream Look to Use it Before They Lose it

By Wyatt Myskow

Protestors demonstrating against the Bolivian government.

Agribusiness Giant Cargill Is in Activists’ Crosshairs for Its Connections to Deforestation in Bolivia

By Georgina Gustin

The prison fence at the Southeast State Correctional Complex in Floyd County, Kentucky, meets a road and open coal seam. Credit: Jill Frank

Q&A: From Coal to Prisons in Eastern Kentucky, and the Struggle for a ‘Just Transition’

By James Bruggers

Three members of security and law enforcement tackle Teddy Ogborn last week at the Jackson Lake Lodge, where the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium was being held in Jackson Hole Wyoming. Credit: Climate Defiance

Activists Crash Powerful Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole as Climate Protests and Responses to Them Escalate

By Keerti Gopal

“We are Ome Yasuni.” Members of the Baihuaeri community of Bameno stand before a ceibo tree in their ancestral territory inside Yasuni National Park. Credit: photo courtesy of the Ome Yasuni association and Javier Awa Baihua.

After Decades Of Oil Drilling, Indigenous Waorani Group Fights New Industry Expansions In Ecuador

By Katie Surma

Standing in his composting site at the Filbert Street Garden in Curtis Bay, Marvin Hayes shows off what he calls 'Black Gold' -- the end product derived from turning food scraps and yard trim into compost, which is well documented to protect the environment, sequester carbon and make communities resilient. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever’ in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. He Thinks it Might Save the City.

By Aman Azhar

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