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Oil and Gas Companies ‘Flare’ or ‘Vent’ Excess Natural Gas. It’s Like Burning Money—and it’s Bad for the Environment

A valuable resource is squandered. Experts blame weak regulations, ineffective tracking and a lack of economic incentives to capture and sell the gas.

By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt

Natural gas is flared at a gas compressor station in the Badlands of North Dakota outside the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on Oct. 30, 2021. Pipeline capacity issues in the state are a primary reason for flaring, according to Loren Wickstrom, field manager of the Bureau of Land Management’s North Dakota field office. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

With Many Ways to Look at Climate Change Economics, Initial Assumptions Are Key

By Max Ajl

Attacks on IPCC's African Agriculture Numbers Ignore Reality

By Max Ajl

Closing America's Climate Gap Between Rich and Poor

By Jeanne Roberts

Without Functioning Ecosystem, There Is No Economic Growth

By Max Ajl

Coal’s Hidden Costs Make it Anything but Cheap

By Quentin Gee

U.S. Carbon Emissions 20% Greater Than Official Estimate

By Brian Angliss

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