In Kentucky, the expansion of data centers raises a deeper question: who really benefits when these facilities move in, and who pays the price?

Many manufacturers burn fossil fuels to make snacks, materials, and chemicals. High electricity costs are complicating their efforts to switch to cleaner…

In Kentucky, the expansion of data centers raises a deeper question: who really benefits when these facilities move in, and who pays the price?

The Garden Grove chemical emergency exposed industrial risks many Orange County residents never knew existed. Long before emergency alerts, thousands of industrial boilers have quietly polluted the ai...

The UC Berkeley analysis should be welcome news for a manufacturing industry that is heavily reliant on natural gas, with its volatile prices, said Jose Dominguez, one of the report’s authors.

Many manufacturers burn fossil fuels to make snacks, materials, and chemicals. High electricity costs are complicating their efforts to switch to cleaner…

The UC Berkeley analysis should be welcome news for a manufacturing industry that is heavily reliant on natural gas, with its volatile prices, said Jose Dominguez, one of the report’s authors.

The Garden Grove chemical emergency exposed industrial risks many Orange County residents never knew existed. Long before emergency alerts, thousands of industrial boilers have quietly polluted the ai...

California’s push to electrify appliances got a major boost from two federal courts.

Magnitude 7 Metals announced today plans to restart the first potline at its aluminum smelter in Marston, Missouri.

Nippon Steel is opening a cleaner plant in Arkansas, but at Gary Works, it has only committed to relining blast furnace No. 14.

The Black struggle is inseparable from the story of American steel. Nippon Steel has inherited this debt. So far, it shows no intention of paying it.

Northwest Indiana has carried the environmental burden of creating steel for decades, Gary Councilwoman Lori Latham, D-1st, said. Now, she believes it’s time for a change in the city. “We deserve ...

At a town hall, the community raised questions about pollution and the future of Gary Works.

A conversation with Betony Jones.

Magnitude 7 Metals shuttered in January 2024, laying off more than 500 workers and hollowing out a community that once depended on the smelter for stable, good-paying jobs. Now, new survey data from I...

Magnitude 7 Metals shuttered in January 2024, laying off more than 500 workers and hollowing out a community that once depended on the smelter for stable, good-paying jobs. Now, new survey data from I...

The sale of a Kentucky aluminum smelter to a data center shows the race for cheap power.

A new study finds that California can achieve cleaner air, lower utility bills, and fewer climate emissions by modernizing the design of electricity rates.

SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

Some Inola residents are raising concerns about a proposed aluminum smelter planned for the area, citing potential environmental and health risks.

Kentucky's lost smelter opportunity shows how reliance on fossil fuel repels new jobs, attracts big servers and secret deals in the high tech race to be the biggest AI company. Is Madison County ready...

Kentucky lost a multibillion-dollar aluminum smelter project and 1,000 jobs to Oklahoma, despite state efforts. It could be a sign of future challenges for Kentucky's economic development.

We’re currently witnessing growing efforts to suppress information about how industrial pollution affects real people and real communities. Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

Century Aluminum chose Oklahoma, not Kentucky, for a new smelter. Some say it’s a "wake-up call" for the Bluegrass State to modernize – and decarbonize –…

High electricity costs in California have slowed industrial decarbonization in the state. New industrial rates and other fixes could change that, experts…

A long-idle industrial site in Hancock County will be redeveloped into a data center campus, according to the company that owned the land.

A giant aluminum smelter development, which at one time was considering a site in northeast Kentucky, will instead be built in Oklahoma.

Kentucky was in line for the first aluminum plant in the country in decades. Instead, the project went to Oklahoma.

Century Aluminum was eyeing Kentucky for a new smelter, but in a surprise move says it’s teaming up with Emirates Global Aluminium to build one in…

Whether you’re smelting or farming, you’re fighting the same battle for affordable energy, steady pay and a future worth passing on.

Whether you’re smelting or farming, you’re fighting the same battle for affordable energy, steady pay and a future worth passing on.

A new climate coalition is calling on air quality regulators to phase out 1,800 of these boilers at places like schools and hospitals.

Stories of Industrial Pollution in the U.S.

Quitting Carbon checked in with Teresa Cheng, California director at Industrious Labs, to talk about passage of AB 1280 and the race to decarbonize manufacturing in the Golden State.

Quitting Carbon checked in with Teresa Cheng, California director at Industrious Labs, to talk about passage of AB 1280 and the race to decarbonize manufacturing in the Golden State.

The US faces record aluminium demand, but AI’s soaring power consumption is crippling domestic smelters and turning the metal into a strategic weakness.

Explore how US aluminum smelting and energy costs shape America's industrial competitiveness and production viability.

Stories of Industrial Pollution in the U.S.