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.
South Carolina Poised to Transform Former Coal-Fired Plant Into a Gas Utility as Public Service Commission Approves Conversion
By Daniel Shailer
A Firm Planning a Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Goes Silent as Lawmakers Seek to Ban Use of CO2 in Quest for Gas
By Peter Mantius
‘Nobody Really Knows What You’re Supposed to Do’: Leaking, Abandoned Wells Wreak Havoc in West Texas
By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News and Carlos Nogueras, Texas Tribune
Railroad Commission Approves Toxic Waste Ponds Next to Baptist Camp
By Martha Pskowski
New Demands to Measure Emissions Raise Cautious Hopes in Pennsylvania Among Environmental Sleuths Who Monitor Fracking Sites
By Jake Bolster
California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed
By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager
Chicago Sues 5 Oil Companies, Accusing Them of Climate Change Destruction, Fraud
By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
Enbridge Wants Line 5 Shutdown Order Overturned on Tribal Land in Northern Wisconsin
By Phil McKenna, Noel Lyn Smith
To Live and Die in Philadelphia: Sonya Sanders Grew Up Next Door to a Giant Refinery. She’s Still Suffering From Environmental Trauma
By Victoria St. Martin
New York State Restricts Investments in ExxonMobil, But Falls Short of Divestment
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Will New York State Divest From Big Oil?
By Nicholas Kusnetz
‘A Dream Deferred:’ 30 Years of U.S. Environmental Justice in Port Arthur, Texas
By James Bruggers
How a Climate Group That Has Made Chaos Its Brand Got the White House’s Ear
By Keerti Gopal
Q&A: New Rules in Pennsylvania Require Drillers to Disclose Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking
Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”
Why a State-Led Coalition to Install More Heat Pumps Is a Big Deal for Climate Change
By Kristoffer Tigue
Wyoming, Slow To Take Federal Clean Energy Funds, Gambles State Money on Carbon Sequestration and Hydrogen Schemes to Keep Fossil Fuels Flowing
By Jake Bolster