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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 21

Manure underpins Iowa’s agriculture industry, but overuse creates serious consequences for the state’s water. insideclimatenews.org/news/21072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. In the nation’s leading pork-producing state, animal waste fuels crop growth but impairs water quality in a leaky circular system.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 15

Humans depend on wetlands for freshwater, food and climate regulation. Over the last 50 years, however, we’ve destroyed 22 percent of those water bodies. insideclimatenews.org/news/15072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that underpin all life on Earth. The report, released Tuesday by the secretariat...

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · 16 h

The petrochemical industry didn’t like the science that the EPA was putting out on chemical risks. Now, the office responsible for that work has been eliminated by the Trump administration and the future of agency risk assessments is uncertain. insideclimatenews.org/news/21072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · 18 h

Afro-descendant communities are some of Earth’s most effective guardians. Why aren’t governments acting to recognize their land rights? insideclimatenews.org/news/22072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. A peer-reviewed study found Afro-descendant territories outperform comparable lands in preventing forest loss thanks to centuries of sustainable land management practices.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 21

Researchers tracked the connection between extreme weather and food prices. Now they’re warning of the potential political and economic upheaval that could follow. insideclimatenews.org/news/21072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. The research shows how droughts, heat and floods raised prices of consumables like chocolate and cocoa and warns that future spikes could lead to political and economic upheaval.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 20

Surging data center demand and sluggish clean energy growth are converging as PJM, the largest power grid operator in the U.S., awaits capacity auction results. Customers across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest will be affected. insideclimatenews.org/news/20072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. Surging data center demand and sluggish clean energy growth are converging as PJM, the pivotal power grid operator, awaits capacity auction results.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 20

LGBTQ+ Americans are organizing disaster protection for each other as political weather worsens. insideclimatenews.org/news/20072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. LGBTQ+ Americans are organizing disaster protection for each other as political weather worsens.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 19

The drought in the Southwestern U.S. is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean. insideclimatenews.org/news/18072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. Climate change is warming the North Pacific Ocean, leading weather patterns that drive drought in the U.S. Southwest to persist decades longer than they have in the recent past.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 18

Two years after leaving BP, Wynn Radford IV is now the chief of staff for the EPA region covering Texas and Louisiana. insideclimatenews.org/news/18072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. After more than a decade working for BP, Wynn Radford IV has a leadership position at the EPA regional office covering five states, including Texas and Louisiana. He has been cleared to work on...

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 18

The EPA informed Colorado on Wednesday that the state could not close coal-fired power plants to improve air quality in the West. insideclimatenews.org/news/17072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. Environmentalists lamented the agency’s decision, but Colorado officials said it would have little impact on its planned shutdown of coal plants.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 18

Investor-state dispute settlement allows foreign investors to sue governments for billions of dollars. Honduras, one of the Americas’ poorest countries, is facing $20 billion in corporate claims. insideclimatenews.org/news/18072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. Using a secretive arbitration system, multinational companies could bankrupt Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the world. A recent advisory opinion from a human-rights court calls for an...

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 17

The 1995 Chicago heat wave was starkly unequal, disproportionately killing Black residents in poorer neighborhoods, especially elders, many of whom lived alone without air conditioning in brick buildings that trapped heat and baked like ovens. insideclimatenews.org/news/17072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson was watching the news during the worst heat wave in her city’s history when she learned that a man she’d known since she was a child had been found dead on the steps of a...

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 17

States are trying to figure out how to protect consumers and the grid from some of the negative financial effects of data centers. A decision in Ohio shows how this can be done. insideclimatenews.org/news/17072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. Regulators have approved a plan to protect against data centers that may contract for lots of electricity and then skip town.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 17

“GENIUS” cryptocurrency legislation has bipartisan support in Congress, but environmental advocates say it will further fuel environmental destruction. insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. The GENIUS Act seeks to regulate stablecoin but will do nothing to curb energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining. Another option for minting crypto coins uses far less energy.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 16

More than 5,000 workers die of fatal injuries on the job every year—about one worker every 99 minutes—yet the Trump administration just reduced penalties for employers who violate worker safety rules. insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. The Trump administration slashed fines for safety violations by small businesses and other employers and plans to reduce already rare workplace inspections. Experts say that will lead to more worker...

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 16

An executive order by President Donald Trump led to an electric grid reliability report that renewable advocates criticized as “botched.” insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. A follow on to President Trump’s executive order on grid reliability, the report promotes the continued use of a Dominion Energy coal plant that lost over $200 million in 2023.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 16

Before Tropical Depression Chantal inundated central North Carolina last week, Hillsborough had a plan to avoid flood disasters. FEMA foiled it. insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. The Trump administration canceled a FEMA program in April that would have funded upgrades to protect the town from flooding. Then the Eno River rose more than 20 feet.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 16

Pennsylvania is seen as a crossroads for the energy and artificial intelligence revolutions, as $90 billion in new corporate investment is announced. Trump takes credit for the new development, while his cabinet members dismiss climate concerns. insideclimatenews.org/news/15072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. While government, energy, tech and banking leaders held a summit, protestors warned of worsening climate pollution and a future shaped by “the worst people on Earth.”

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 15

The warnings came in the mail this spring to 47 community water systems serving more than 400,000 Illinois residents: Elevated levels of harmful PFAS, better known as “forever chemicals,” had been found in their drinking water. insideclimatenews.org/news/15072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. Hundreds of thousands of residents are served by the affected systems. City officials must monitor and mitigate the PFAS in the years ahead.

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Inside Climate News@insideclimate · Jul 14

New research tracks the increasing intensity of the strongest and most damaging nor’easter storms that affect the Eastern U.S. They’ve become windier and rainier since 1940, with a 17 percent increase in destructive potential. insideclimatenews.org/news/14072025/…

insideclimate's tweet card. One new study identifies a 17 percent increase in the destructive potential of the strongest nor’easters, while another bolsters links between Arctic ice melt and dangerous blizzards.

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