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Laura Hogshead, director of ReBuild NC, which mismanaged millions of dollars in hurricane recovery spending, is no longer employed with the agency, Inside Climate News has confirmed. Eddie Buffaloe Jr., secretary of the Department of Public Safety, announced…

BAKU, Azerbaijan—With little to show after eight days of talks, COP29 negotiators are under pressure to deliver a solid finance deal to help the countries most affected by climate change and least responsible for it before the annual climate conference is…

AUBURN, Ala.—By Monday morning, Jim and Pam were already trying to build back better.  The pair of bonded bald eagles, symbols of the nation and of Auburn University, were busy at work in the skies above the city, gathering large sticks and other nesting…

When the federal and state governments sought during the First and Second Seminole wars to forcibly remove Native Americans from Florida, the Indigenous peoples found sanctuary among the tree islands scattered within the watery wilderness of the Everglades.…

The seven states that rely on the Colorado River are deeply divided over how to manage the shrinking water supply in the future. In a meeting on Monday, Arizona’s top water official outlined major differences between the states’ ideas about how to cut back…

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has spent the last week nominating the staff who will carry out his goals for rolling back renewable energy and environmental policies throughout his term.  Trump has tapped leaders with deep ties to the fossil fuel industry…

State Rep. Brenden Jones furrowed his brow, pursed his lips and seemed to spit his words rather than speak them.  For two years, Jones, a Columbus County Republican, has served on an oversight committee over hurricane recovery that has scrutinized, with…

In the race that would result in former President Donald Trump’s reelection, Michigan voters were bombarded with two competing and often contradictory messages. In one corner, a transition to electric vehicles, galvanized by federal aid, would lead the…

Inside Climate News has received two new major grants this fall—one from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the other from the Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation, both to be used over the next three years. The MacArthur Foundation’s…

BAKU, Azerbaijan—This year’s COP29 climate conference started right where last year’s meeting in Dubai left off—with more conflict-of-interest woes around a senior official recorded trying to use the meeting to arrange fossil fuel development deals.…