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At COP28, the United States Will Stress an End to Fossil Emissions, Not Fuels

The Biden administration faces increasing international and domestic political pressure to endorse near-term cuts in coal, oil and natural gas.

By Marianne Lavelle

Banners fly at the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, before its official opening on Thursday. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
An aerial view of the quilombola community of São João on the Itacuruçá River in Abaetetuba, Pará, Brazil. Credit: Cícero Pedrosa Neto

“Carbon Cowboys” Chasing Emissions Offsets in the Amazon Keep Forest-Dwelling Communities in the Dark

By Sam Schramski and Cícero Pedrosa Neto

Jeanette Toomer fears that formaldehyde-based relaxers in hair straighteners she used for decades led her to develop endometrial cancer. Credit: Michael Kodas

Black Women Face Disproportionate Risks From Largely Unregulated Toxic Substances in Beauty and Personal Care Products

By Victoria St. Martin

Former Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Zhai Qing arrive for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali on October 14, 2016. Credit: Cyril Ndegeya/AFP via Getty Images

Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?

By Phil McKenna and Peter Aldhous

A large screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing shows news coverage of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping at San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday, after China and the United States released a joint statement of cliimate cooperation. Credit: Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

Can US, China Climate Talks Spur Progress at COP28?

By Bob Berwyn, Phil McKenna and Nicholas Kusnetz

The Dominion Energy headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Dominion’s Proposed Virginia Power Plant Casts Doubt on Its Commitments to Clean Energy

By Jake Bolster

Virginia voters cast their ballots at Newton-Lee Elementary School on Tuesday in Ashburn, Virginia. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

With Democrats Back in Control of Virginia’s General Assembly, Environmentalists See a Narrow Path Forward for Climate Policy

By Hannah Chanatry

In Clewiston, Florida, a sugar cane field in the Everglades Agricultural Area. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot

By Amy Green

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

Oil and gas lawyer Sarah Stogner visits Lake Boehmer in Pecos County where abandoned wells have brought produced water to the surface for decades. The Railroad Commission considers these water wells and therefore not under their jurisdiction. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas

By Martha Pskowski, and Peter Aldhous

Dozens of residents live within a few hundred yards of the Miller Plant in West Jefferson, Alabama, the nation's largest polluter of greenhouse gases. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth

Seth Berry, left, an author of the Pine Tree Power proposal and a former Democratic state representative, answers questions from potential voters at a gathering of climate activists at a home in Winslow, Maine, in August. Credit: Annie Ropeik

Mainers See Climate Promise in Ballot Initiative to Create a Statewide Nonprofit Electric Utility

By Annie Ropeik

A natural gas compressor station on a hillside Septem in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. The area is situated above the Marcellus Shale, where a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into horizontally drilled wells to stimulate the release of the gas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Pennsylvania’s Gas Industry Used 160 Million Pounds of Secret Chemicals From 2012 to 2022, a New Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) speaks during a rally to urge President Biden to use his executive powers to stop approving fossil fuel projects, phase out fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters, and declare a climate emergency, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2023. Merkley called FERC's approval of an expansion of an expansion of a natural gas pipeline through the northwest "outrageous" Thursday, Oct. 20., 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images

Feds Approve Expansion of Northwestern Gas Pipeline Despite Strong Opposition Over Its Threat to Climate Goals

By Grant Stringer

A surface mine in Floyd County, Kentucky, operated by a bankrupt company is shown here in 2021 unreclaimed. Kentucky state officials said reclamation efforts have since begun. Credit: The Courier-Journal.

Lawmakers Want Answers on Damage and Costs Linked to Idled ‘Zombie’ Coal Mines

By James Bruggers

Excess natural gas is burned off in a process known as "flaring" an oil well where it is not economically feasible to capture the gas. Credit: (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images.

Texas Continues to Issue Thousands of Flaring Permits

By Martha Pskowski

An aerial view of a natural gas pipeline under construction in Smith Township, Pennsylvania, in October 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

The Biden Administration Has Begun Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas ‘Gathering Lines.’ The Industry Isn’t Happy

By Craig R. McCoy

Honeywell Specialty Materials in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Credit: Kathleen Flynn for the Washington Post

Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators

By Phil McKenna

Rosemary Penwarden is led away by police after gluing her hand to a road in New Zealand to stop traffic as part of a protest by Restore Passenger Rail in August 2023. Credit: Photo Courtesy Restore Passenger Rail

In New Zealand, Increasingly Severe Crackdowns on Environmental Protesters Fail to Deter Climate Activists

By Emma Ricketts

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