Fossil Fuels

Turning Trash to Natural Gas: Utilities Fight for Their Future Amid Climate Change

A giant landfill in Washington state is producing natural gas from decaying trash. The gas industry is promoting such projects to fend off legislative attempts to spur greater electrification of buildings.

Hal Bernton, Seattle Times

Blackjewel’s Bankruptcy Filing Is a Harbinger of Trouble Ahead for the Plummeting Coal Industry

By James Bruggers

A Legacy of the New Deal, Electric Cooperatives Struggle to Democratize and Make a Green Transition

By James Bruggers

Maryland’s Capital City Joins a Long Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry

By David Hasemyer

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys

How Does a Utility Turn a Net-Zero Vision into Reality? That’s What They’re Arguing About in Minnesota

By Dan Gearino

Urging Biden to Stop Line 3, Indigenous-Led Resistance Camps Ramp Up Efforts to Slow Construction

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Decade Into the Fracking Boom, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Haven’t Gained Much, a Study Says

By James Bruggers

A Disillusioned ExxonMobil Engineer Quits to Take Action on Climate Change and Stop ‘Making the World Worse’

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Chess Game Continues: Exxon, Under Pressure, Says it Will Take More Steps to Cut Emissions. Investors Are Not Impressed

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Biden’s Pause of New Federal Oil and Gas Leases May Not Reduce Production, but It Signals a Reckoning With Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Judy Fahys

Coal Communities Across the Nation Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power

By James Bruggers

Biden Cancels Keystone XL, Halts Drilling in Arctic Refuge on Day One, Signaling a Larger Shift Away From Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz

American Petroleum Institute Chief Promises to Fight Biden and the Democrats on Drilling, Tax Policy

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Senate’s New Point Man on Climate Has Been the Democrats’ Most Fossil Fuel-Friendly Senator

By James Bruggers

Exxon Pledges to Reduce Emissions, but the Details Suggest Nothing Has Changed

By Nicholas Kusnetz

As the Livestock Industry Touts Manure-to-Energy Projects, Environmentalists Cry ‘Greenwashing’

By Georgina Gustin

Not Waiting for Public Comment, Trump Administration Schedules Lease Sale for Arctic Wildlife Refuge

By Sabrina Shankman

UN Report: Despite Falling Energy Demand, Governments Set on Increasing Fossil Fuel Production

By Nicholas Kusnetz