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Will the Moody Landfill Fire Ever Be Extinguished? The EPA Isn’t So Sure.
MOODY, Ala.—Richard Harp couldn’t believe his ears. On Thursday, he heard for the first time from Inside Climate News that an EPA official had publicly confirmed what he already knew—the massive underground landfill fire near Moody, Alabama, just a football field away from his home, is still burning. In fact, the official told ICN, it […]
Read MoreWhy a Natural Gas Storage Climate ‘Disaster’ Could Happen Again
On a November afternoon in 2022, a 57-year old well tapped into an underground natural gas storage reservoir in western Pennsylvania started leaking, fast enough that people a few miles away heard a loud, jet engine-like noise. By the time the leak was stopped nearly two weeks later, roughly 16,000 metric tons of methane had […]
Read MoreIn a Steel Town Outside Pittsburgh, an Old Fight Over Air Quality Drags On
When the town of Clairton, Pennsylvania, was founded a few miles south of Pittsburgh at the start of the 20th century, the only thing there was a steel mill. “At the beginning of 1901, the town of Clairton was a field,” a newspaper article from 1904 explained. “The Clairton steel mill first began operations in […]
Read MoreEPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities
WASHINGTON—A year ago, when Adam Ortiz, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Mid-Atlantic administrator, met with Shawn Scott here in the predominantly Black Ivy City neighborhood, she asked him a question with more than a little urgency. “‘Adam, can you smell it?’” he remembered her asking him, referring to a chemical manufacturer next door to her home […]
Read MoreCrucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous
Aluminum is crucial for a clean energy economy, but its production is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions as well as toxic air and water pollution, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project on the “paradox” of aluminum. The report comes as the federal government is offering billions of dollars in […]
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