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An oil drilling rig is pictured on April 24, 2020 near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Why Won’t the Environmental Protection Agency Fine New Mexico’s Greenhouse Gas Leakers?

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Stacks emit steam at the Jim Bridger Power Plant Feb. 14, 2001 near Point of Rocks, Wyoming. Credit: Michael Smith/Newsmakers

In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An Airbus A350-1000 aircraft is seen inside a hangar at Sydney international airport on May 2, 2022, after the Australian airline Qantas announced it will launch the world's first non-stop commercial flights from Sydney to London and New York by the end of 2025. Credit: Wendell Teodoro /AFP via Getty Images

Qantas Says Synthetic Fuel Could Power Long Flights by Mid-2030s

By James Fernyhough, The Financial Times

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

Commuters make their way along a street amid smoggy conditions early in the morning in Lahore, Pakistan on Dec. 17, 2021. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’

By Victoria St. Martin

Charlie Penner

Q&A: The Activist Investor Who Shook Up the Board at ExxonMobil, on How—or if—it Changed the Company

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks during a Republican leadership forum at Newtown Athletic Club on May 11, 2022 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

In the Race for Pennsylvania’s Open U.S. Senate Seat, Candidates from Both Parties Support Fracking and Hardly Mention Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Two women shower amid destruction after Typhoon Haiyan on Nov. 14, 2013 in Leyte, Philippines. Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A pregnant woman receives an exam from her doctor. Biomonitoring studies have measured at least 43 chemicals from diverse classes of chemical compounds in 99-100% of pregnant women in the United States. Credit: Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Harming the Planet. They’re Making Us Sick

By Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

The Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 9, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

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

Consumer clothing products for sale at Walmart store on June 1, 2012 in Rosemead, California. Credit: Getty Images/Bob Riha, Jr.

Analysis: Fashion Industry Efforts to Verify Sustainability Make ‘Greenwashing’ Easier

By Phil McKenna

American Electric Power's Mountaineer coal power plant opened a carbon capture unit (center right), alongside the plant's cooling tower and stacks in 2009. The project later died. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Piles of coal ash are dumped next to coal ash pond in Dumfries, Virginia, on Jan. 7, 2016. which is filled with roughly 150 million gallon of contaminated water. Credit: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Two US Electrical Grid Operators Claim That New Rules For Coal Ash Could Make Electricity Supplies Less Reliable

By James Bruggers

The new Cheniere LNG export terminal is across the water, in Louisiana, from the neighborhood of Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: James Bruggers

Should EPA Back-Off Pollution Controls to Help LNG Exports Replace Russian Gas in Germany?

By James Bruggers

The company that blasted the sides of this Floyd County, Kentucky, mountain went bankrupt and left behind mining violations including steep cliffs. The property’s owner, Tracy Neece, is waiting on state regulators to find a way to get it reclaimed. In the background, other former surface mines, largely barren of trees, are visible. Credit: Alton Strupp/The Courier Journal

The Decline of Kentucky’s Coal Industry Has Produced Hundreds of Safety and Environmental Violations at Strip Mines

By James Bruggers

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

Occidental is Eyeing California’s Clean Fuels Market to Fund Texas Carbon Removal Plant

By Nicholas Kusnetz

John Allaire checks a trap for fish or crabs on his coastal property in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, south of Lake Charles. Credit: James Bruggers

With Biden in Europe Promising to Expedite U.S. LNG Exports, Environmentalists on the Gulf Coast Say, Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in a general debate in a plenary session in the Bundestag. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

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