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Holding industries that profit from greenhouse gas emissions accountable for actions that hinder solutions to the climate crisis their products are responsible for causing. 

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

A new report shows that seven of the 10 refineries dumping the most dissolved solids in the nation’s waterways are along the Texas Coast.

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces oil in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images
Solar panels and wind turbines are pictured on a barren mountain at Shenjing Village on July 2, 2018 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province of China. Credit: VCG

When Will We Hit Peak Fossil Fuels? Maybe We Already Have

By Dan Gearino

A general view of the Costa Sur power plant is seen in Penuelas, Puerto Rico on Jan. 9, 2020, after a powerful earthquake hit the island. Credit: Ricardo Ardungo/AFP via Getty Images

Puerto Rico Hands Control of its Power Plants to a Natural Gas Company

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A flare stack is pictured next to pump jacks and other oil and gas infrastructure on April 24, 2020 near Odessa, Texas. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Texas Environmentalists Look to EPA for Action on Methane, Saying State Agencies Have ‘Failed Us’

By Martha Pskowski

Gas-burning stoves are offered for sale at a home improvement store on this month in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images.

How Gas Stoves Became Part of America’s Raging Culture Wars

By Victoria St. Martin

In an aerial view, an oil pumpjack works in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022 in Crane, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

People take part in a protest against ExxonMobil before the start of its trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress

Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The last-ever Concorde passenger flight takes off from John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to London on Oct. 24, 2003 in New York City. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Supersonic Aviation Program Could Cause ‘Climate Debacle,’ Environmentalists Warn

By Phil McKenna

People watch as President Donald Trump tours the Cameron LNG Export Facility May 14, 2019, in Hackberry, Louisiana. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Louisiana Regulators Are Not Keeping Up With LNG Boom, Environmentalists Say

By James Bruggers

Everett LNG Marine Terminal on Oct. 31, 2022 in Everett, Massachusetts. Credit: Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

2022 Will Be Remembered as the Year the U.S. Became the World’s Largest Exporter of Liquified Natural Gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases

By Phil McKenna, and Lili Pike, Grid China Reporter

A Turkish diver dives amid plastic waste in Ortakoy coastline to observe the life and pollution of Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey on June 27, 2020. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Is ‘Chemical Recycling’ a Solution to the Global Scourge of Plastic Waste or an Environmentally Dirty Ruse to Keep Production High?

By James Bruggers

A fracking operation takes place on leased farm land near Dimock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Residents Fear New Methane Contamination as Pennsylvania Lifts Its Gas-Drilling Ban in the Township of Dimock

By Jon Hurdle

Environmental activists rally for accountability for fossil fuel companies outside of New York Supreme Court on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Oil Companies Had a Problem With ExxonMobil’s Industry-Wide Carbon Capture Proposal: Exxon’s Bad Reputation

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of Shell Chemical's new multi billion-dollar ethane cracker plant processing plant across the Allegheny River can be seen under construction Oct. 27, 2017 in Monaca, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

A New Shell Plant in Pennsylvania Will ‘Just Run and Run’ Producing the Raw Materials for Single-Use Plastics

By James Bruggers

The Formosa Plastics plant sits near Matagorda Bay in Point Comfort, Texas on Nov. 3, 2021. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Army Corps of Engineers Withdraws Approval of Plans to Dredge a Superfund Site on the Texas Gulf Coast for Oil Tanker Traffic

By Autumn Jones, Dylan Baddour

A fracking site is situated on the outskirts of town in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Why American Aluminum Plants Emit Far More Climate Pollution Than Some of Their Counterparts Abroad

By Phil McKenna

Can being placed in can bank in the United Kingdom. Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Want to Help Reduce PFC Emissions? Recycle Those Cans

By Phil McKenna

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