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In a 2018 file photo, workers in Midland, Texas, extracting oil from oil wells in the Permian Basin. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

By Martha Pskowski
A new fracking rig operates behind a house Feb. 10, 2016 in an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma neighborhood. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images

North Texas Suburb Approves New Fracking Zone Near Homes and Schools

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski
Shell's new petrochemical plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. Credit: Emma Ricketts/Inside Climate News.

Shell Agrees to Pay $10 Million After Permit Violations at its Giant New Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

By James Bruggers

What Is Produced Water?

By Liza Gross, Dylan Baddour
A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on Dec. 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell

By Liza Gross
The Stanton Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant, is seen in Orlando. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

EPA Proposes to Expand its Regulations on Dumps of Toxic Waste From Burning Coal

By James Bruggers, Amy Green
A woman and her baby stand in a flooded street, in the province of La Union in Piura, northern Peru, on March 25, 2017. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies Should Pay Trillions in ‘Climate Reparations,’ New Study Argues

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Inglewood Oil Field in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Bill Would Hit Oil Companies With $1 Million Penalty for Health Impacts

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main
A pump jack works in Texas' Permian Basin as the EPA proposes a new rule to reduce methane leaks in oil and gas operations. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector

By Martha Pskowski
Adam Norris surveys the wildfire damage at his home in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, on May 8, 2023. - Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and threatens to raze towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Credit: Walter Tychnowicz / AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West’s Wildfires

By Wyatt Myskow
Two 18-wheel tractor trailers carry fresh water to natural gas wells being drilled by hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale Sept. 10, 2012 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Ohio Environmentalists, Oil Companies Battle State Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater

By Jon Hurdle
Shell's new petrochemical plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. Credit: Emma Ricketts/Inside Climate News.

Shell Sued Over Air Emissions at Pennsylvania’s New Petrochemical Plant

By Jon Hurdle
In a file photo, John Podesta, who became President Joe Biden's chief climate advisor earlier this year. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor in President Barack Obama's White House. Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images.

Biden’s Top Climate Adviser Signals Support for Permitting Deal with Fossil Fuel Advocates

By Marianne Lavelle
An overhead view of an explosion at a Shell USA Inc. facility on May 5, 2023 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix/The Texas Tribune

Shell Refinery Unit Had History of Malfunctions Before Fire

By Dylan Baddour
Dannie Bolden grew up in this house. He and other North Port St. Joe residents dream of revitalizing their neighborhood and uniting it with the other end of town. “Because of what we see happening on the other side of town, we know it’s possible,” he says. Credit: Amy Green

In the Florida Panhandle, a Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by a Proposed Liquified Natural Gas Plant

By Amy Green
An image of Conesville Power Plant from animation drawn by Michael Schmidt.

Mourning, and Celebration: A Funeral for a Coal-Fired Power Plant

By Dan Gearino
A rendering of a planned direct air capture plant in Texas that would initially pull 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air annually. Occidental Petroleum, which is planning to build the plant, would use some or most of the carbon dioxide it captures to pump more oil out of depleted reservoirs. Credit: Carbon Engineering

Carbon Removal Projects Leap Forward With New Offset Deal. Will They Actually Help the Climate?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
A man walks up the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 31, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeals From Fossil Fuel Companies in Climate Change Lawsuits

By Emma Ricketts

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