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At Global Energy Conference, Oil and Gas Industry Leaders Argue For Fossil Fuels’ Future in the Energy Transition

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Carbon Capture Takes Center Stage, But Is Its Promise an Illusion?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Biden Administration Stops Short of Electric Vehicle Mandates for Trucks

By Marianne Lavelle

Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas

By Marianne Lavelle

Today’s Climate: Manchin, Eyeing a Revival of Build Back Better, Wants a Ban on Russian Oil and Gas

By Kristoffer Tigue

‘Delay is Death,’ said UN Chief António Guterres of the New IPCC Report Showing Climate Impacts Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts

By Bob Berwyn

Biden Could Score a Climate Victory in a Single Word: Plastics

By James Bruggers

A sign welcomes passersby to an “Energy Sacrifice Zone” outside of Counselor, New Mexico, on Oct. 26, 2021. The Greater Chaco region has become a flashpoint between environmental activists and the oil and gas industry, which is expanding into the oil-rich land. Credit: Jimmy Cloutier/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

New Mexico Wants it ‘Both Ways,’ Insisting on Environmental Regulations While Benefiting from Oil and Gas

By Isabel Koyama, Sarah Suwalsky, Jimmy Cloutier and Zach Van Arsdale

Why Did California Regulators Choose a Firm with Ties to Chevron to Study Irrigating Crops with Oil Wastewater?

By Liza Gross

Flares light up the landscape after sunset on an oil patch in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on Oct. 27, 2021. North Dakota’s 2014 gas capture plan attempted to reduce flaring in the state, including on tribal land. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

How One Native American Tribe is Battling for Control Over Flaring

By Isaac Stone Simonelli, Maya Leachman and Andrew Onodera

Natural gas is flared at a gas compressor station in the Badlands of North Dakota outside the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on Oct. 30, 2021. Pipeline capacity issues in the state are a primary reason for flaring, according to Loren Wickstrom, field manager of the Bureau of Land Management’s North Dakota field office. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

Oil and Gas Companies ‘Flare’ or ‘Vent’ Excess Natural Gas. It’s Like Burning Money—and it’s Bad for the Environment

By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt

A flare burns near Cotulla, Texas, on Oct. 26, 2021. The South Texas town is located within the Eagle Ford Shale, one of the country’s top oil and gas-producing regions. Credit: Aydali Campa/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

How Greenhouse Gases Released by the Oil and Gas Industry Far Exceed What Regulators Think They Know

By Laura Kraegel, Mollie Jamison and Aydali Campa

A Florida Chemical Plant Has Fallen Behind in Its Pledge to Cut Emissions of a Potent Greenhouse Gas

By Phil McKenna

Corn-Based Ethanol May Be Worse For the Climate Than Gasoline, a New Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

The Biden Administration Rethinks its Approach to Drilling on Public Lands in Alaska, Soliciting Further Review

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions

By Phil McKenna

How Climate and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergirds the Ukraine-Russia Standoff

By Marianne Lavelle

For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents

By James Bruggers

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