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The Barely Recognizable J.D. Vance as Trump’s Vice Presidential Running Mate

Inside Climate News staff writer Dan Gearino, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, wonders what happened to the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and “public intellectual” who once touted “a climate problem in our society.”

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. J.D. Vance, celebrates with his wife Usha after he officially accepted the nomination on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Clean Energy Is Booming in Purple Wisconsin. Just Don’t Mention Climate Change

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Minnesota Dam That Partially Failed Is One of Nearly 200 Across the Upper Midwest in Similarly ‘Poor’ Condition

By Kristoffer Tigue

National Guard soldiers walk back by a water pump on a flooded street in Waterville, Minnesota on June 25. Credit: Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images

Widespread Flooding in Upper Midwest Decimates Farm Towns

By Nina Elkadi

Midwest Floods, Widespread Heat Waves Are Undermining U.S. Transportation Systems

By Kiley Price

NTSB Says Norfolk Southern Threatened Staff as They Investigated the East Palestine Derailment

By Kiley Bense

Midwest States Have Approved Hundreds of Renewable Energy Projects. So Why Aren’t They Online?

By Kristoffer Tigue

Biofuel Refineries Are Releasing Toxic Air Pollutants in Farm Communities Across the US

By Georgina Gustin

Renewable Energy Wins for Now in Michigan as Local Control Measure Fails to Make Ballot

By Dan Gearino

Milton Denney loads up bottled water for distribution to residents of Santee, Neb. High levels of manganese in the tribe’s water may have adverse effects on the central nervous systems of people who consume it. Credit: Jerry L Mennenga/Flatwater Free Press

After Five Years Without Drinkable Water, a Nebraska Town Asks: When Will Our Tap Water Be Safe?

By Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press

Want to See Community Solar Done Right? A Project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Can Serve as a Model

By Dan Gearino

The Midwest Could Be in for Another Smoke-Filled Summer. Here’s How States Are Preparing

By Kristoffer Tigue

Ohio Solar Mounts a Comeback in the Face of a Campaign Whose Alleged Villains Include China and Bill Gates

By Dan Gearino

Clean Energy Is Driving ‘a New Era in American Manufacturing’ Across the Midwest

By Kristoffer Tigue

How Shadowy Corporations, Secret Deals and False Promises Keep Retired Coal Plants From Being Redeveloped

By Daniel Propp

‘Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship’: A Rights of Nature Epiphany

By Katie Surma

New EPA Rule Could Accelerate Cleanup of Coal Ash Dumps

By Daniel Propp

Will There Be Less Wind to Fuel Wind Energy?

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

The STEM Teaching and Learning Facility at Michigan State University is the first mass timber building in Michigan. Credit: Integrated Design Solutions

Researchers at Michigan Tech Want to Create a High-Tech Wood Product Called Cross-Laminated Timber From the State’s Hardwood Trees

By Drew Saunders

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