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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
The inside story of how AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.
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Mercury is still an environmental threat
The heavy metal is poisoning Indigenous peoples' environment and health, but no one can agree on how or when to get rid of it.
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![A woman in a baseball cap and red coveralls points to a large puddle.]()
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Oil and gas companies spill millions of gallons of wastewater in Texas
Companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade, an Inside Climate News analysis found.
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How abandoned oil wells plague the Osage Nation
A century after the events of "Killers of the Flower Moon," abandoned oil wells litter the Osage Nation.
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How Hurricane Ida turned a Louisiana nursing home into a living nightmare
For Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida, the storm was only the start of a deadly nightmare.
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A new report calls chemical recycling a ‘dangerous deception’ — and a former plastic lobbyist agrees
Most U.S. chemical recycling facilities turn plastics into fuel to be burned.
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Landfills in Washington and Oregon leaked ‘explosive’ levels of methane last year
EPA inspection reports find methane exceedances are more common than operators say.
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What happens when solar panels wear out?
The majority end up in landfills. Advocates say we can do better.
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Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them?
“We’re asking for something so simple. Something that could save so many lives.”
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To obscure the risks of gas stoves, utilities borrowed from Big Tobacco’s playbook
Industry-funded research downplayed health hazards as far back as 1974, documents show.
