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A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Wyoming Considers Relaxing Its Carbon Capture Standards for Electric Utilities, Scrambling Political Alliances on Climate Change and Energy

By Jake Bolster

The Linden Cogeneration Plant is seen in Linden, N.J. The EPA said it will delay action on the more than 2,000 existing natural gas plants that are now responsible for 43 percent of the sector’s greenhouse gas pollution. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress

Climate Rules Reach Finish Line, in Weakened Form, as Biden Races Clock

By Marianne Lavelle

Abby and Scott Tennant embrace at the house where the family relocated in Paden City, West Virginia, after experiencing illnesses when EQT expanded operations in the hollow they called home. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

West Virginia Families Pleaded for Help With Health Issues After Fracking Started Nearby. None Came

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

The data collected from MethaneSAT will be publicly available in near real-time. Credit: MethaneSAT

A New EDF-Harvard Satellite Will Monitor Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Production Worldwide

By Phil McKenna

Carbon dioxide pipelines transport CO2 captured from ethanol processing plants like this one in Menlo, Iowa. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Just How Much Money Do CO2 Pipeline Companies Stand to Make From the Inflation Reduction Act?

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Kristoffer Tigue

A Dominion Power utility truck drives down a road in Charleston, S.C. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

South Carolina Poised to Transform Former Coal-Fired Plant Into a Gas Utility as Public Service Commission Approves Conversion

By Daniel Shailer

A fracked-methane gas pipeline under construction in Peekskill, N.Y. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

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

Bill Wight looks at the well that leaked enormous volumes of saltwater on his property. It took crews over a month to seal the well and stop the leak. Credit: Sarah M. Vasquez/The Texas Tribune

‘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

Circle 6 Baptist Camp, bottom, and produced water ponds, constructed by Martin Water, top, in Lenorah on Feb. 24, 2024. The Railroad Commission approved the construction of the ponds, used to treat and recycle produced water from fracking, next to the Circle 6 Baptist Camp in the Permian Basin. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News

Railroad Commission Approves Toxic Waste Ponds Next to Baptist Camp

By Martha Pskowski

A gas drilling rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

New Demands to Measure Emissions Raise Cautious Hopes in Pennsylvania Among Environmental Sleuths Who Monitor Fracking Sites

By Jake Bolster

Oil pumpjacks dot the landscape on the outskirts of Taft, Kern County, California. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager

Chicago is suing big fossil fuel companies, alleging the impact of flooding and other climate-related events has caused great damage. Credit: Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Chicago Sues 5 Oil Companies, Accusing Them of Climate Change Destruction, Fraud

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

The Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs located on the Bad River Reservation. Credit: Richard Schultz/Courtesy of 50 Eggs Films

Enbridge Wants Line 5 Shutdown Order Overturned on Tribal Land in Northern Wisconsin

By Phil McKenna, Noel Lyn Smith

Sonya Sanders poses for a portrait outside her home in Philadelphia on Dec. 19, 2023. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

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

Fossil Free Divest NY, in coordination with community members, rally outside the office of the New York State Comptroller in New York City on May 14, 2018. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

New York State Restricts Investments in ExxonMobil, But Falls Short of Divestment

By Nicholas Kusnetz

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager of the state’s Common Retirement Fund, speaks after successful re-election in New York City on Nov. 9, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Will New York State Divest From Big Oil?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Motiva oil refinery, the largest in the United States, looms over a residential neighborhood in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

 ‘A Dream Deferred:’ 30 Years of U.S. Environmental Justice in Port Arthur, Texas

By James Bruggers

Climate Defiance's first big action was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Climate Defiance

How a Climate Group That Has Made Chaos Its Brand Got the White House’s Ear

By Keerti Gopal

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