Southeast

In Florida, Gen Z Activists Step Into the Fight Against Sugarcane Burning

Every year, farmers in South Florida set fire to more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields pre-harvest, creating a “black snow” of ash and soot that falls on the low-income communities nearby.

By Michelle Mairena and Kyndall Hubbard, Youthcast Media Group

Alabama Wood Pellet Mill Seeks Millions in Climate Funds, but Critics Say It Won’t Cut CO2

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

A Known Risk: How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere

By Terry L. Jones and Pam Radtke, Floodlight

Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families

By James Bruggers

In the Everglades, a Clash Portrayed as ‘Science vs. Politics’ Pits a Leading Scientist Against His Former Employer

By Amy Green

EPA Proposes to Expand its Regulations on Dumps of Toxic Waste From Burning Coal

By James Bruggers, Amy Green

Climate Change Forces a Rethinking of Mammoth Everglades Restoration Plan

By Amy Green

Amy Green Joins Inside Climate News to Cover Florida; Regional and Local Networks Expand in the Southeast, Midwest, Texas and Mountain West

By ICN Editors

A New Report Is Out on Hurricane Ian’s Destructive Path. The Numbers Are Horrific

By Amy Green

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino

Citing ‘Racial Cleansing,’ Louisiana ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Sue Over Zoning

By James Bruggers

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

On the Frontlines in a ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black Women Inspired by Faith Are Powering the Environmental Justice Movement

By James Bruggers

Nursing Florida’s Ailing Manatees Back to Health

By Amy Green, WMFE

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole Left Devastating Flooding in Central Florida. Will it Happen Again?

By Amy Green,  WMFE

Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation

By James Bruggers

Q&A: Cancer Alley Is Real, And Louisiana Officials Helped Create It, Researchers Find

By James Bruggers

Louisiana Regulators Are Not Keeping Up With LNG Boom, Environmentalists Say

By James Bruggers

Sidestepping a New Climate Commitment, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Greenlights a Mammoth LNG Project in Louisiana

By James Bruggers