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Construction cranes stand silhouetted by the sunset at the Golden Pass LNG Terminal in Sabine Pass, Texas, in April 2022. Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum, began as an import terminal and construction seen today will create export capability. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

Planned Fossil Fuel Production Vastly Exceeds the World’s Climate Goals, ‘Throwing Humanity’s Future Into Question’

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Poet bioprocessing plant in Jewell, Iowa, which produces 90 million gallons of ethanol annually. Several pipelines have been proposed in the Midwest that would deliver millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide captured every year from Midwest ethanol plants to underground storage facilities. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines Ever Proposed

By Kristoffer Tigue

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

Brenda Mallory, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, speaks at the Fight for Our Future: Rally for Climate, Care, Jobs & Justice in Lafayette Square near The White House last year. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network

Advocates Question Biden Administration’s Promises to Address Environmental Injustices While Supporting Fossil Fuel Projects

By Aman Azhar

The ExxonMobil Baytown Complex in Baytown, Texas, at dusk. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

The Missing Equations at ExxonMobil’s Advanced Recycling Operation

By James Bruggers

Jan Dell, founder of The Last Beach Cleanup and a chemical engineer, examines the contents of a large container of bagged plastics at a Houston Recycling Collaboration all-plastics recycling depository in the Houston community of Kingwood in September. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

Dumped, Not Recycled? Electronic Tracking Raises Questions About Houston’s Drive to Repurpose a Full Range of Plastics

By James Bruggers

Oil and gas lawyer Sarah Stogner visits Lake Boehmer in Pecos County where abandoned wells have brought produced water to the surface for decades. The Railroad Commission considers these water wells and therefore not under their jurisdiction. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas

By Martha Pskowski, Peter Aldhous

The U.S. Steel Corporation Gary Works, Tennessee St. gate, in Gary, Indiana, in September. The Gary Works was the largest greenhouse gas emitting iron and steel plant in the U.S. in 2022 with 10.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson / for Inside Climate News

Who Were the Worst of the Worst Climate Polluters in 2022?

By Phil McKenna

Dozens of residents live within a few hundred yards of the Miller Plant in West Jefferson, Alabama, the nation's largest polluter of greenhouse gases. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth

A rainbow touches down on the Kokalik River, in northwestern Alaska, winds its way through the National Petroleum Reserve. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Is ConocoPhillips Looking to Expand its Controversial Arctic Oil Project?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A waste water tank truck passes on the main street of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images.

Should Toxic Wastewater From Gas Drilling Be Spread on Pennsylvania Roads as a Dust and Snow Suppressant?

By Jake Bolster

A natural gas compressor station on a hillside Septem in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. The area is situated above the Marcellus Shale, where a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into horizontally drilled wells to stimulate the release of the gas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Pennsylvania’s Gas Industry Used 160 Million Pounds of Secret Chemicals From 2012 to 2022, a New Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) speaks during a rally to urge President Biden to use his executive powers to stop approving fossil fuel projects, phase out fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters, and declare a climate emergency, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2023. Merkley called FERC's approval of an expansion of an expansion of a natural gas pipeline through the northwest "outrageous" Thursday, Oct. 20., 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images

Feds Approve Expansion of Northwestern Gas Pipeline Despite Strong Opposition Over Its Threat to Climate Goals

By Grant Stringer

A car drives by a home with a nearby derrick drilling for natural gas near Calvert, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

Research by Public Health Experts Shows ‘Damning’ Evidence on the Harms of Fracking

By Jon Hurdle

A surface mine in Floyd County, Kentucky, operated by a bankrupt company is shown here in 2021 unreclaimed. Kentucky state officials said reclamation efforts have since begun. Credit: The Courier-Journal.

Lawmakers Want Answers on Damage and Costs Linked to Idled ‘Zombie’ Coal Mines

By James Bruggers

Excess natural gas is burned off in a process known as "flaring" an oil well where it is not economically feasible to capture the gas. Credit: (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images.

Texas Continues to Issue Thousands of Flaring Permits

By Martha Pskowski

An aerial view of a natural gas pipeline under construction in Smith Township, Pennsylvania, in October 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

The Biden Administration Has Begun Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas ‘Gathering Lines.’ The Industry Isn’t Happy

By Craig R. McCoy

Honeywell Specialty Materials in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Credit: Kathleen Flynn for the Washington Post

Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators

By Phil McKenna

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