Fossil Fuels

Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

Dominion Energy presented the Chesterfield peaker plant as an answer to ensuring grid reliability. Some residents and clean energy advocates disagree.

By Charles Paullin

Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates

By Dana Drugmand

Ohio Landfills Take Drilling Waste but Don’t Track or Test Much of It

By Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front

Trump Administration Terminates Fuel Economy Standards

By Arcelia Martin

Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic’s False Solutions 

By Liza Gross

Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 

By Dylan Baddour

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

Alabama Power Seeks to Delay Rate Hike for New Gas Plant Amid Outcry

By Dennis Pillion

N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants

By Lisa Sorg

A Rare Recusal by Texas Oil and Gas Regulator Up for Re-election

By Martha Pskowski

Growing Tensions with Air Regulator Lead Top California Environmental Justice Advisor to Resign

By Blanca Begert

Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition

By Keerti Gopal

International Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Super Pollutant Falls Short, UN Report Reveals

By Phil McKenna

Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists

By Charles Paullin

As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites

By Liza Gross

Congress Axes Biden-Era Protections That Shielded Alaskan Wetlands From Drilling

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up

By Carrie Klein

As COP30 Unfolds in the Amazon, Brazil Is Drilling for Oil Near the Great Amazon Reef System

By Teresa Tomassoni

A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30

By Dana Drugmand