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Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago
Editor’s note: This article, originally published on September 16, 2015, was the first installment of a nine-part investigation called Exxon: The Road Not Taken, now…
Exxon Criticized ICN Stories Publicly, But Privately, Didn’t Dispute The Findings
In the wake of Inside Climate News’ 2015 stories on ExxonMobil’s research confirming fossil fuels’ role in global warming, the oil giant hit back with…
Headed Toward the Finish Line, Plastics Treaty Delegates ‘Work is Far From Over’
The United States and other leading oil and gas producing countries that resist caps on future plastic production had a powerful effect on the latest…
Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife, and Grief in Marine Scientists
Over the past several years, the temperature of the Earth’s oceans have been spiking high enough to trigger numerous die-offs of marine species, killing millions…
The Government Is Officially Reintroducing Grizzly Bears in the North Cascades. What Happens Now?
In 1996, a Canadian researcher stumbled upon a female grizzly bear snacking on a bushel of berries in the U.S. portion of the North Cascades—a…
A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor
In 2014, when Jackie Shock-Stewart and her husband Matt Stewart first moved to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, they were only vaguely aware of plans to build…
California Community Organizer Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize
The vast landscape east of Los Angeles known as the Inland Empire is among the fastest-growing regions in California, driven by a booming warehouse and…
Climate Change Has Infiltrated Game Night—and That’s a Good Thing, Experts Say
Earlier in April, more than 60 million people were presented with a mission: Track down and vanquish a golden, fire-breathing dragon terrorizing a vulnerable village. …
Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater
These days the Pecos River barely fills its dry, sandy bed where it crosses West Texas, but the river could be poised to flow again…
Officials Celebrate a New Power Line to Charge Up the Energy Transition in the Southwest
SALOME, Ariz.—While a power line in a remote corner of the desert Southwest might seem like an unusual attraction for national leaders, the completion of…