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View In: Inside Climate NewsFeeding the Beast: Second in a series about lax regulation, corporate influence and the heavily polluting, yet nearly untouchable American meat industry. Thousands of dead and bloated pigs floated down country roads, buoyed by floodwaters. Tens of millions of gallons of feces and urine spilled over th...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsData center developers and states see small modular nuclear reactors as one of the potential solutions for America’s increasing energy demand due to their smaller sizes and ability to provide steady energy generation. But nuclear energy experts say the main challenge is the timeline for their commercia...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsWired for Profit: Fifth in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, pollution and politics in the Yellowhammer State. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Darrell Nance knows he’s being watched. We all are.  Nance, a longtime resident of the city and founder of DeFlock Birmingham...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsBoth President Donald Trump and a clean energy super PAC that backed Darline Graham, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, are celebrating her victory over Rep. Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s South Carolina Republican Senate primary. The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition (ITC), financed by solar entrepreneur...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsKERMAN, Calif.—One hundred degrees on a steamy Thursday afternoon and not much can be seen along the dust-blown avenue in Kerman. A school bus cruises by. Cows lap up water or feed behind a fence. A tractor crosses the road.  What’s most evident in this span of the San Joaquin Valley is a seemingly misplace...

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View In: Inside Climate NewsWINDBER, Pa.—Standing on the rocky banks of Paint Creek in western Pennsylvania, Jim Panaro pointed out the colors of contamination. The orange staining the boulders is from iron, he explained, and the milky-white pools stagnating at the surface are aluminum. Likely lurking beneath the surface are othe...