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Aerial View of a Steam Passenger Train Puffing Smoke in Amish Countryside on a Sunny Spring Day (Greg Kelton via Getty Images) (GettyImages )

Pennsylvania locomotive manufacturing workers are striking for greener jobs

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Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts continue after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing an environmental disaster. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

In the wake of the East Palestine disaster, other train towns wonder: Are we next?

John McCracken
Workers Transferring Ethanol From Rail to Truck (Getty Images/Greg Pease)

Midwestern leaders want to sell ethanol in summer despite smog risks

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This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, the United States. (NTSB/Handout via Xinhua/Getty Images)

The train derailment in Ohio was a disaster waiting to happen

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Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty Images)

Documents show how a pipeline company paid Minnesota millions to police protests

Alleen Brown, John McCracken
This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, the United States. (NTSB/Handout via Xinhua/Getty Images)

‘This is absurd’: Train cars that derailed in Ohio were labeled non-hazardous

John McCracken
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Biden spotlights climate victories in State of the Union. But where do we go from here?

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Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

Cleaning up “forever chemicals” is costly and messy — just ask this Wisconsin town

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A North Sea oil rig in Scotland, UK. (Wikimedia)

Amazon’s “The Rig” brings new energy to old eco terrors

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A new EPA proposal is reigniting a debate about what counts as ‘renewable’

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A man holding a non-stick pan with a damaged coating (Getty Images/Elena Gurova)

After years of pressure, 3M will stop making ‘forever chemicals’

John McCracken, Joseph Winters
A pair of oil jacks pump crude oil from a Kansas prairie (Getty Images/Keith Szafranski)

Cleanup is underway for the US’s second-largest tar sands oil spill

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Big farm tractor tilling dusty Springtime fields (Getty Images/JamesBrey)

Midwest soil is eroding faster than ever. Modern farming could be to blame

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Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

These 3 governor’s races could determine whether the Midwest reaches its climate goals

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A new tax credit for biogas could be a boon to factory farms

John McCracken
American bullfrog floating at the surface of a farm pond in Kentucky USA. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Study: Warming winters will thaw frozen manure, further polluting U.S. waters

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Harvesting corn silage in Maryland (Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images)

Will the Farm Bill be the next big climate package? It depends on the midterm elections

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