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Fossil Fuels

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

Why Plastics Have Overtaken the Planet

And what people just like you are doing about it.

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

People ride past a drain clogged with plastic waste along a roadside in Karachi, Pakistan, on Aug. 24, 2025. Credit: Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images
The Delaware River flows through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania border. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Ban in the Delaware River Basin Survives a Republican Challenge (For Now)

By Jon Hurdle

The construction at Venture Global’s LNG export facility in Port Sulphur, La., on Feb. 26, 2024. Credit: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Governments Knew the Risks of Global Warming as They Chose Fossil-Fueled Growth in the 1950s and ’60s

By Bob Berwyn

Alabama Power’s coal ash storage lagoon at its Greene County plant sits next to the Black Warrior River. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Trump EPA Moves to Approve Alabama Coal Ash Program Rejected by Biden Administration

By Dennis Pillion

The JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

The World’s Largest Meat Company Abandons Its Climate and Deforestation Goals

By Georgina Gustin

Steam billows from Valero’s West Refinery outside Corpus Christi on April 29. Cooling towers at industrial facilities can evaporate more than 1,000 gallons of water per minute. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say

By Neena Satija, Dylan Baddour

Technicians remove a natural gas water heater from a home to be replaced with an electric heat pump. Credit: Bastien Inzaurralde/AFP via Getty Images

Colorado Voters Will Decide Whether a ‘Right to Natural Gas’ is Added to the State Constitution

By Maya McDaniel

An oil refinery in Torrance, Calif., is seen on June 15. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Global Oil Demand Falls for the First Time Since COVID

By Dan Gearino

Braven Environmental stopped operating its Zebulon chemical recycling plant last year and began hauling the last of its equipment away this summer. The circular outline indicates the former location of a tank. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Chemical Plant Mishandled Hazardous Waste for Years, Then Quietly Shuttered

By Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg

A view of the Stanton Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant in Orlando, Fla. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Grassroots Justice Group Challenges Trump Administration Order to Keep Florida Coal Plant Running

By Amy Green

llegal dumping in Gianyar, Bali. Credit: Courtesy, Merah Putih Hijau (MPH)

Bali Is Still Choking on Plastic

By Alula Alderson

An oil field in Kern County, California. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California’s First Carbon Capture Project Is Up and Running. Environmentalists Are Still Trying To Stop It.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

The shuttered Homer City Generating Station sits in the background of a coal cleanup site in Center Township, Pa., on June 12, 2024. Credit: Scott Lewis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Power Plants for Data Centers Would Significantly Increase Pennsylvania’s Climate Pollution

By Jon Hurdle

Crews work to extinguish a fire after an explosion at a Chevron refinery on Oct. 2, 2025, in El Segundo, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Chemical Accidents Rise as Trump Administration Proposes Weakening Safety Rules

By Liza Gross

In Kenya, 100 percent of coral reefs, mangroves and marine and coastal protected areas overlap with proposed oil and gas blocks. Credit: Muturi Kamau

Offshore Oil and Gas Rush Threatens Whale Corridors and Coral Reefs

By Teresa Tomassoni

Sherry Peshoff stands on a slab where a home use to sit next to the perimeter wall of Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Cameron, La. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz/Inside Climate News

What Happened When an LNG Giant Came to Town

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A TotalEnergies flag flies in the foreground, with a refinery in the background.

French Oil Major Failed to Fulfill ‘Vigilance’ Duty on Climate, Paris Court Rules

By Dana Drugmand

The construction site of a natural gas pipeline. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A Pipeline Company Says It Will Protect the Environment in North Carolina. Its Record in Tennessee Says Otherwise.

By Lisa Sorg

A view of Shell’s massive ethane “cracker” plant at Monaca in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a project that opened in 2022. Credit: Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Fossil Fuel Tax Revenue Lags Far Behind Other Energy States, Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

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