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DataOne, the Microsoft-linked New Jersey datacenter recently hit with a $1 million fine for running unpermitted generators, emitted large amounts of health-harming air pollution for nearly a year before state regulators stepped in, according to public records obtained by Floodlight. The Vineland facility’s 62 gas-fired generators became public in August after a Floodlight/Guardian visual investigation found them

In Cameron, Louisiana, all the RV parks are full. Venture Global, a Virginia-based liquefied natural gas developer valued at around $36 billion, broke ground on a new multi-phase LNG plant in Cameron in August of 2019. Today, the first part of the plant—Calcasieu Pass 1, or CP1—is fully operational, cooling methane to -260 degrees Fahrenheit

Across much of the U.S., people have little way to know when the air they breathe turns dangerous. Over recent decades, federal funding for public air monitoring has declined, the number of monitors has fallen, and much of the remaining equipment is aging or located far from major polluters. Now, the stakes are rising: Wildfire

  Since 1986, Karen Noga has lived within 2 miles of the Exide battery smelter, which belched lead and arsenic unabated into surrounding neighborhoods until it shuttered in 2015. First, Noga lived in Huntington Park, about 1.5 miles away from the plant, she told The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and LA Public Press for this

  Earlier this year, supporters of Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge—a 50,000-acre nature preserve spread across parts of three counties in southeastern Indiana—got an alarming letter from Will Meeks, the Midwest regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Meeks indicated that the federal government was probably going to walk away from the Memorandum

  The American school bus has looked about the same for 80 years. Yellow paint, high vinyl seats, a heater up front, and windows you adjust by hand. Any air conditioning is what you get with the windows open while rolling down the street. Most likely, it’s been decades since you’ve ridden a school bus

Floodlight and The Guardian report that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is operating gas turbines in Mississippi in violation of EPA clean air regulations.