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An oil pumpjack in Kern County, California. Credit: Harika Maddala

California’s Oil Country Faces an ‘Existential’ Threat. Kern County Is Betting on the Carbon Removal Industry to Save It

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News, and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

An oil pumpjack stands idle near homes in February 2023 in Signal Hill, California. The production of oil and natural gas in the U.S. soared to record heights within the past year. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

American Petroleum Institute Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure

By Marianne Lavelle

A portion of the 350-mile Mariner East 2 natural gas pipeline under construction in Exton, Pennsylvania in June 2019. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

The Pittsburgh Foundation, Known for its Environmentalism, Shares a Lobbying Firm with the Oil and Gas Industry

By Kiley Bense

Workers in front of the Cricket Valley Power Plant in Wingdale, New York. Southern Tier Solutions wants to build up to a dozen new natural gas-fueled power plants in the state. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Plan for Gas Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Draws Muted Response from Regulators, But Outrage From Green Groups

By Peter Mantius

Demonstrators hold a sign reading Degrowth Now after they blocked the A12 highway during an Extinction Rebellion protest on March 11, 2023 in The Hague, Netherlands. Credit: Michel Porro/Getty Images

New Research Explores a Restorative Climate Path for the Earth

By Bob Berwyn

Biologist Sandra Steingraber attends the Build Series at Build Studio on March 10, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Bennett Raglin/WireImage

Q&A: Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber on Scientists’ Moral Obligation to Speak Out

By Liza Gross

In July 2002, then-Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker, second from right, listens to a progress report on rescue efforts at Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania. At right is Joseph A. Braffoni, of the Bureau of Deep Mine Safety, second from left is Larry Winckler, center is David Hess, Pennsylvania secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and at left is Jeffery Stanchek a mine rescue instructor for the DEP. They were coordinating efforts to reach nine miners trapped for three days. Credit: Gene J. Puskar/ AFP via Getty Images.

David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

By Jake Bolster

An unlined coal ash pond in western Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

EPA and Alabama Power to Start Settlement Negotiations Over Coal Ash Storage near Mobile

By Lee Hedgepeth

The proposed site of SOBE Thermal Energy Systems' tire pyrolysis chemical plant in Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

A volunteer firefighter and first responder drives a fire truck in the city of Lawler, located in Iowa's Chickasaw County. Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing to build a carbon dioxide pipeline through Chickasaw County, within just a few miles of the city limits. Credit: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

EVs and $9,000 Air Tanks: Iowa First Responders Fear the Dangers—and Costs—of CO2 Pipelines

By Kristoffer Tigue

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

A young activist of American indigenous origins, Licypriya Kangujam, is removed by security after she forced herself onto the stage in a protest against fossil fuels extraction during COP28's "Uniting on the Pathway to 2030 and Beyond" session on December 11, 2023 in Dubai. Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Climate Treadmill Speeds Up At COP28, But Critics Say It’s Still Not Going Anywhere

By Bob Berwyn

The skyline of Van Horn, Texas, where residents are raising concerns about a proposed natural gas pipeline. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Worried About Safety, a Small West Texas Town Challenges Planned Cross-Border Pipeline

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Alejandra Martinez, the Texas Tribune

An oil drilling rig works in the Permian Basin oil field in Midland, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Thousands of Oil and Gas Wastewater Spills Threaten Property, Groundwater, Wildlife and Livestock Across Texas

By Martha Pskowski

Attendees applaud after announcement of UAE consensus during a closing plenary of COP28 on Dec. 13. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

Q&A: The Sort of ‘Breakthrough’ Moment Came in Dubai When the Nations of the World Agreed to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

Scientist Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion and other scientist-activist groups staged a play dramatizing the threats fossil fuel development pose to the planet at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Will the American Geophysical Union Cut All Ties With the Fossil Fuel Industry?

By Liza Gross

John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, speaks onstage at the COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai on Dec. 4. Credit: Mahmoud Khaled /COP28 via Getty Images

The U.S. May Not Have Won Over Critics in Dubai, But the Biden Administration Helped Keep the Process Alive

By Marianne Lavelle

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President of the UNFCCC COP28, attends day 13 of the climate conference on Dec. 13 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The conference has gone into an extra day as delegations continue to negotiate over the wording of the final agreement. Credit: Fadel Dawod/Getty Images

COP28 Does Not Deliver Clear Path to Fossil Fuel Phase Out

By Bob Berwyn

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