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.
In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away
By Kiley Bense
Analysis: Fashion Industry Efforts to Verify Sustainability Make ‘Greenwashing’ Easier
By Phil McKenna
Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Two US Electrical Grid Operators Claim That New Rules For Coal Ash Could Make Electricity Supplies Less Reliable
By James Bruggers
Should EPA Back-Off Pollution Controls to Help LNG Exports Replace Russian Gas in Germany?
By James Bruggers
The Decline of Kentucky’s Coal Industry Has Produced Hundreds of Safety and Environmental Violations at Strip Mines
By James Bruggers
Occidental is Eyeing California’s Clean Fuels Market to Fund Texas Carbon Removal Plant
By Nicholas Kusnetz
With Biden in Europe Promising to Expedite U.S. LNG Exports, Environmentalists on the Gulf Coast Say, Not So Fast
By James Bruggers
Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?
By Dan Gearino
FERC Says it Will Consider Greenhouse Gas Emissions and ‘Environmental Justice’ Impacts in Approving New Natural Gas Pipelines
By Zoha Tunio
‘Last Gasp for Coal’ Saw Illinois Plants Crank up Emission-Spewing Production Last Year
By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino
Coal Mining Emits More Super-Polluting Methane Than Venting and Flaring From Gas and Oil Wells, a New Study Finds
By Phil McKenna
At Global Energy Conference, Oil and Gas Industry Leaders Argue For Fossil Fuels’ Future in the Energy Transition
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Carbon Capture Takes Center Stage, But Is Its Promise an Illusion?
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Biden Administration Stops Short of Electric Vehicle Mandates for Trucks
By Marianne Lavelle
Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas
By Marianne Lavelle