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Indigenous groups and opponents of the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project protest its construction across northern Minnesota. Credit: Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Driven by Industry, More States Are Passing Tough Laws Aimed at Pipeline Protesters

By Nicholas Kusnetz
An aerial view shows Marathon Petroleum Corp's Los Angeles Refinery, the state's largest producer of gasoline, on April 22, 2020 in Carson, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies Took Billions in U.S. Coronavirus Relief Funds but Still Cut Nearly 60,000 Jobs

By Nicholas Kusnetz
A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 1,300-foot-long vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. Credit: Suez Canal Authority/Handout/AFP via Getty Images

Russia is Turning Ever Given’s Plight into a Marketing Tool for Arctic Shipping. But It May Be a Hard Sell

By Sabrina Shankman

When an Oil Company Profits From a Pipeline Running Beneath Tribal Land Without Consent, What’s Fair Compensation?

By Judy Fahys
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it on Oct. 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

Does Another Plastics Plant in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Make Sense? A New Report Says No

By James Bruggers

Donald Trump’s Parting Gift to the People of St. Croix: The Reopening of One of America’s Largest Oil Refineries

By Kristoffer Tigue
Chris Rowe, an unemployed Blackjewel coal miner, mans a blockade of the railroad tracks that lead to the mine where he once worked on Aug. 24, 2019 in Cumberland, Kentucky. More than 300 miners in Harlan County unexpectedly found themselves unemployed when Blackjewel declared bankruptcy and shut down their mining operations. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

A Bankruptcy Judge Lets Blackjewel Shed Coal Mine Responsibilities in a Case With National Implications

By James Bruggers

As Oil Demand Rebounds, Nations Will Need to Make Big Changes to Meet Paris Goals, Report Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Former Vice President Al Gore claps while at a rally organized by the Memphis Community Against the Pipeline at Alonzo Weaver Park on Sunday afternoon. Gore and his organization Climate Reality have spoken out against the Byhalia Connection Pipeline project that is proposing a route through southwest Memphis neighborhoods that are primarily Black. Credit: Andrea Morales for MLK50

Q&A: Al Gore Describes a ‘Well-Known Playbook’ That Fossil Fuel Companies Employ to Win Community Support

By Carrington J. Tatum, MLK50
Ships are docked along refinery facilities at the Houston Ship Channel, part of the Port of Houston, on March 6, 2019 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Loren Elliot/AFP via Getty Images

During February’s Freeze in Texas, Refineries and Petrochemical Plants Released Almost 4 Million Pounds of Extra Pollutants

By Aman Azhar
Chemical plants in the Rubbertown area of Louisville stand near the Ohio River in February 2018 during flood conditions on the river. The Chemours chemical plant is located within the wedge-shaped Chemours property in the lower half of the photo. Credit: Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal

A Single Chemical Plant in Louisville Emits a Super-Pollutant That Does More Climate Damage Than Every Car in the City

By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers
Center Street, near the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley was the first city in the United States to pass an ordinance that banned natural gas hookups in new construction. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

A Furious Industry Backlash Greets Moves by California Cities to Ban Natural Gas in New Construction

By Dan Gearino
Each day more than 12 million pounds of garbage is dumped, spread, compacted and finally covered with a layer of dirt at the Klickitat County landfill owned by Republic Services. It sits on a plateau above the Columbia River in southern Washington. Credit: Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times

Turning Trash to Natural Gas: Utilities Fight for Their Future Amid Climate Change

Hal Bernton, Seattle Times
Unemployed Blackjewel coal miner David Pratt holds his daughter Willow as he walks across railroad tracks that lead to one of the company's mines near Cumberland, Kentucky in 2019. Blackjewel miners found themselves unemployed when the company declared bankruptcy and the workers' final paychecks bounced, leading them to blockade the tracks to prevent the train carrying the mine's final shipment of coal from leaving until they were paid their wages. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Blackjewel’s Bankruptcy Filing Is a Harbinger of Trouble Ahead for the Plummeting Coal Industry

By James Bruggers
President Roosevelt delivers a speech at the dedication of the U.S. Rural Electrification Project. Credit: Getty Images

A Legacy of the New Deal, Electric Cooperatives Struggle to Democratize and Make a Green Transition

By James Bruggers
An aerial view from a drone shows the Maryland State House, on April 16, 2020 in Annapolis, Maryland. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Maryland’s Capital City Joins a Long Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry

By David Hasemyer
U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), at the U.S. Capitol in January 2019.

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys
Xcel Energy is proposing to stop burning coal at the Sherburne County Generating Station in Becker, Minnesota, and build a natural gas power plant on the site. Credit: Tony Webster

How Does a Utility Turn a Net-Zero Vision into Reality? That’s What They’re Arguing About in Minnesota

By Dan Gearino

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