Fossil Fuels

As PJM Reopens Interconnection Queue, Experts Warn Damage to Maryland’s Clean Energy Plans Is Already Done

Gas and nuclear projects make up roughly 55 percent of the total capacity of the more than 800 new generation projects, a dramatic shift from the renewable-dominated queue PJM spent the last four years clearing.

By Aman Azhar

California Drivers Are Paying a More Than $6-a-Gallon Price for the War in Iran

By Steven Rodas

A Massive, Trump-Backed Power Plant May Be Too Big to Succeed

By Dan Gearino

How Oil Fuels Conflict and War—and Who Profits

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Trump Pushes ‘Peace Pipelines’ to Boost Exports of Climate-Busting LNG to Europe

By Dennis Pillion

Wyoming’s Largest Utility Joins a New Western Day Ahead Market for Electricity

By Jake Bolster

As Energy, War and Climate Collide, a Conference in Colombia Charts a Path Beyond Fossil Fuels

By Bob Berwyn

Western Lawmakers Move To Weaken Clean Air Act and Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits

By Jake Bolster

Europe’s Trawlers Extract a Huge ‘Cost to Society’ in Bycatch and Carbon Dioxide

By Johnny Sturgeon

Fossil-Fuel Funded GOP Leaders Claim a Renowned Scientific Institution Has ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’

By Liza Gross

As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit

By Bob Berwyn

An Oilfield Leak Springs Under a Permian Basin Baptist Church

By Martha Pskowski

As Climate Disasters Create an Insurance Crisis, a California Bill Seeks to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay

By Steven Rodas

Transco Pipeline Project Faces Legal Challenge

By Lisa Sorg

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking

By Katie Surma

As a Plastic Waste Plant Violates Pollution Rules, Its Owner Makes the Case for a Second Location

By James Bruggers

Low-Producing Oil Wells in Texas Cause Headaches for Landowners

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

A Protracted US–Iran War Could Strain Climate Finance From Wealthy Countries to Developing Nations

By Aman Azhar

Environmental Groups Take Trump Administration’s ‘God Squad’ to Court

By Wyatt Myskow