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Welcome to the Inside Climate News Podcast. Explore a diverse collection of audio stories that dive into the urgent issues of climate change, energy policy, environmental justice, and more. Whether you’re looking for investigative reporting, in-depth interviews, or powerful narratives, you’ll find it all here.

  1. ICN Sunday Morning: A Messy Trail of Toxic Oil and Gas Waste

    21/12/2025

    ICN Sunday Morning: A Messy Trail of Toxic Oil and Gas Waste

    Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and reporter Kiley Bense as they discuss how Pennsylvania is failing to track toxic oil and gas waste, while the amount sitting in landfills grows every year. Pennsylvania is ground zero for the fracking boom. It’s increased natural gas production there 37-fold since 2008. That production generates a lot of waste, but the state’s ability to track it has failed to keep up. A decade ago, regulators promised to improve reporting standards for the waste, which can include radioactive material, heavy metals and carcinogenic chemicals. But a new Inside Climate News investigation found huge discrepancies in state records, making it hard for Pennsylvania to enforce regulations around spills, leaks, transport and dumping on roads or in public waterways. “It could be dumped right next to somebody’s house and they would not even know,” a former state regulator told ICN. Kiley, who’s been digging into this issue all through 2025, explains what happens to oil and gas waste in Pennsylvania, what it means for residents, and the consequences of having so few guardrails. Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19... Explore ICN’s reporting on fracking waste: https://insideclimatenews.org/project... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    8 min
  2. ICN Sunday Morning: A Port That Could Doom the Amazon

    07/12/2025

    ICN Sunday Morning: A Port That Could Doom the Amazon

    Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Georgina Gustin as they describe how a new Chinese-backed megaport in Peru could push the Amazon rainforest past its breaking point. When a massive Chinese-backed port opened in Chancay, Peru, it was the realization, nearly two decades in the making, of a dream to revolutionize global trade by connecting South America to Asia with a straight-shot shipping route across the Pacific. The port — Peru’s first project under the banner of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and China’s flagship infrastructure investment in South America — brings tremendous economic opportunities, but also environmental threats. The port reawakens old ambitions of roads, railways and water routes that could connect the riches of the Amazon to the continent’s west coast and the world’s largest ocean, efforts that scientists warn could speed the destruction of the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem. Georgina, our award-winning agriculture reporter who spent a month in Peru reporting this story, explains the enormous complexities and consequences flowing from the new port’s development and how its magnetic pull may spell disaster for communities and ecosystems in its orbit. Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01... Explore ICN’s reporting on China’s Belt and Road Initiative: https://insideclimatenews.org/project... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    24 min

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Welcome to the Inside Climate News Podcast. Explore a diverse collection of audio stories that dive into the urgent issues of climate change, energy policy, environmental justice, and more. Whether you’re looking for investigative reporting, in-depth interviews, or powerful narratives, you’ll find it all here.

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