Fossil Fuels

As Harsh Financial Realities Emerge, St. Croix’s Limetree Bay Refinery Could Be Facing Bankruptcy

The recently reopened Caribbean oil refinery hasn’t made loan payments in over a year, investors are backing out and residents are envisioning an economy without it.

By Kristoffer Tigue

Thousands Came to Minnesota to Protest New Construction on the Line 3 Pipeline. Hundreds Left in Handcuffs but More Vowed to Fight on.

By Sam Palca, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna

Wealthy Nations Continue to Finance Natural Gas for Developing Countries, Putting Climate Goals at Risk

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An Explosion in Texas Shows the Hidden Dangers of Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels

By Sabrina Shankman, Julia Kane

As Illinois Strains to Pass a Major Clean Energy Law, a Big Coal Plant Stands in the Way

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times, and Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News

With Trump Gone, Old Fault Lines in the Climate Movement Reopen, Complicating Biden’s Path Forward

By Marianne Lavelle

With the World Focused on Reducing Methane Emissions, Even Texas Signals a Crackdown on ‘Flaring’

By Jonathan Moens

‘Suezmax’ Oil Tankers Could Soon Be Plying the Poisoned Waters of Texas’ Lavaca Bay

By Aman Azhar

Dutch Court Gives Shell Nine Years to Cut Its Carbon Emissions by 45 Percent from 2019 Levels

By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino

ExxonMobil Shareholders to Company: We Want a Different Approach to Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

North Dakota, Using Taxpayer Funds, Bailed Out Oil and Gas Companies by Plugging Abandoned Wells

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Citing an ‘Imminent’ Health Threat, the EPA Orders Temporary Shut Down of St. Croix Oil Refinery

By Kristoffer Tigue

Biden’s Pipeline Dilemma: How to Build a Clean Energy Future While Shoring Up the Present’s Carbon-Intensive Infrastructure

By Marianne Lavelle

From Denial to Ambiguity: A New Study Charts the Trajectory of ExxonMobil’s Climate Messaging

By Nicholas Kusnetz

California Proposal Embraces All-Electric Buildings But Stops Short of Gas Ban

By Dan Gearino

Coal Phase-Down Has Lowered, Not Eliminated Health Risks From Building Energy, Study Says

By Marianne Lavelle

The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere

By Lisa Song, ProPublica, and James Temple, MIT Technology Review

One of the Country’s 10 Largest Coal Plants Just Got a Retirement Date. What About the Rest?

By Dan Gearino

EPA to Send Investigators to Probe ‘Distressing’ Incidents at the Limetree Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Kristoffer Tigue