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.
History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows
By Liza Gross
Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production
By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino
A Proposed Utah Railway Could Quadruple Oil Production in the Uinta Basin, if Colorado Communities Don’t Derail the Project
By Wyatt Myskow
Fossil Fuel Executives See a ‘Golden Age’ for Gas, If They Can Brand It as ‘Clean’
By Nicholas Kusnetz
EPA Officials Visit Texas’ Barnett Shale, Ground Zero of the Fracking Boom
By Dylan Baddour
Encina Chemical Recycling Plant in Pennsylvania Faces Setback: One of its Buildings Is Too Tall
By James Bruggers
As Enforcement Falls Short, Many Worry That Companies Are Flouting New Mexico’s Landmark Gas Flaring Rules
By Martha Pskowski
Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas
By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune
At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Once Hailed as a Solution to the Global Plastics Scourge, PureCycle May Be Teetering
By James Bruggers
Activists Make Final Appeal to Biden to Block Arctic Oil Project
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Aman Azhar
Lawmakers Urge Biden Administration to Permanently Ban Rail Shipments of Liquefied Natural Gas
By Jon Hurdle
In Pennsylvania, Home to the Nation’s First Oil Well, Environmental Activists Stage a ‘People’s Filibuster’ at the Bustling State Capitol
By Kiley Bense
After Explosion, Freeport LNG Rejoins the Gulf Coast Energy Export Boom
By Dylan Baddour, Delger Erdenesanaa
Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species
By Liza Gross
Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation
By James Bruggers