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An image of Conesville Power Plant from animation drawn by Michael Schmidt.

Mourning, and Celebration: A Funeral for a Coal-Fired Power Plant

By Dan Gearino

A rendering of a planned direct air capture plant in Texas that would initially pull 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air annually. Occidental Petroleum, which is planning to build the plant, would use some or most of the carbon dioxide it captures to pump more oil out of depleted reservoirs. Credit: Carbon Engineering

Carbon Removal Projects Leap Forward With New Offset Deal. Will They Actually Help the Climate?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A man walks up the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 31, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeals From Fossil Fuel Companies in Climate Change Lawsuits

By Emma Ricketts

The Höegh Esperanza, Germany’s first floating LNG terminal to be commissioned for service, sits just off the North Sea coast. Local residents say its bright lights disrupt the darkness on the nearby beach at night. Credit: Andreas Burmann/Niedersachsen Ports

As Germany Falls Back on Fossil Fuels, Activists Demand Adherence to Its Ambitious Climate Goals

By Emma Ricketts, Grant Schwab

The Edgar Thomson Plant, part of U.S. Steel, is seen in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Dustin Franz for The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Green Steel’ Would Curb Carbon Emissions, Spur Economic Revival in Southwest Pennsylvania, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning

By Stacey Burling

A stock pond south of Dallas dries up due to drought conditions. Across Texas, drought is taxing reservoirs and rivers and groundwater aquifers are being pumped faster than they can recharge. Currently, more than half the state is in drought. Credit: Paul Buck/AFP via Getty Images.

Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth

By Martha Pskowski

In Signal Hill, California, an oil pump jack stands idle near homes, in February 2023. California law S.B. 1137, which required a safety buffer zone of 3,200 feet around homes and schools for new oil and gas drilling, was suspended after the petroleum industry last year collected enough signatures in a petition campaign to place a referendum on the 2024 general election ballot. The bill was originally signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last year and also banned new drilling near parks, health care facilities, prisons and businesses open to the public. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Environmental Justice Advocates Urge California to Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits in Neighborhoods

By Liza Gross

A protester wearing a mask holds an anti-fossil fuels banner during the demonstration outside the Bank of England. Credit: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Banks Say They’re Acting on Climate, But Continue to Finance Fossil Fuel Expansion

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A fire Tuesday at a plastics recycling plant in Richmond, Indiana, forced the evacuation of 2,000 nearby residents. Credit: Kevin Shook/Global Media Enterprise.

Where There’s Plastic, There’s Fire. Indiana Blaze Highlights Concerns Over Expanding Plastic Recycling

By James Bruggers

Smoke billows from steel factories and coal-fired power plants in Baotou, a town in Daqi, Inner Mongolia, China. Credit: Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images

Earth Could Warm 3 Degrees if Nations Keep Building Coal Plants, New Research Warns

By Kristoffer Tigue

Nearby homes are in danger of fire after an explosion on the Signal Hill oil field in Long Beach, California, June 1933. Credit: FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows

By Liza Gross

Coal miners, their faces smeared with coal dust in a coal mine, in Cumberland, Kentucky, around 1945. Credit: Curtis Wainscott/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino

A rig provides maintenance on an oil well in the canyon country of Utah. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A Proposed Utah Railway Could Quadruple Oil Production in the Uinta Basin, if Colorado Communities Don’t Derail the Project

By Wyatt Myskow

Gas is flared as waste from the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using fracking on March 22, 2014 near Buttonwillow, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Executives See a ‘Golden Age’ for Gas, If They Can Brand It as ‘Clean’

By Nicholas Kusnetz

EPA region six administrator Earthea Nance (left) and Liveable Arlington founder Ranjana Bhandari overlook and discuss a drilling site from a motel balcony in Arlington. Credit: Dylan Baddour

EPA Officials Visit Texas’ Barnett Shale, Ground Zero of the Fracking Boom

By Dylan Baddour

A corn field wilts in a mid summer dry spell in a Point Township, Pennsylvania, field where Houston-based Encina says it will convert plastic waste to benzene, toluene and xylene. Credit: James Bruggers

Encina Chemical Recycling Plant in Pennsylvania Faces Setback: One of its Buildings Is Too Tall

By James Bruggers

A malfunctioning flare at a tank battery in the New Mexico Permian Basin, photographed on Feb. 6, 2023. Incomplete combustion in a flare, as pictured, generates more emissions. Credit: WildEarth Guardians.

As Enforcement Falls Short, Many Worry That Companies Are Flouting New Mexico’s Landmark Gas Flaring Rules

By Martha Pskowski

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