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Pennsylvania’s Fossil Fuel Tax Revenue Lags Far Behind Other Energy States, Report Says

A new analysis concludes low taxes on industry have failed to boost the state’s economy. The industry argues that it’s supplied jobs and cheap energy.

By Jon Hurdle

A view of Shell’s massive ethane “cracker” plant at Monaca in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a project that opened in 2022. Credit: Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Mira Shah, who recently started a student-run climate economics journal, at her father’s office in Dublin, Calif. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Teen Starts an Online Journal on the Power of Economics to Confront Climate Change

By Liza Gross

A container ship is docked at the Port of Oakland in California on Feb. 3. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

What Will Tariffs Do to the Energy Economy? Here Are Three Scenarios

By Dan Gearino

President Donald Trump presents his global tariff plan during a trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Will US Tariffs Make World Leaders Value the Stability of Renewables?

By Dan Gearino

Birding Is a Much (Much) Bigger Industry Than You Knew

By Kiley Price

Chris Galvin, President of Andersen Corp., talks with employee Wendy Ingalls at the company's Bayport, Minn. factory on Dec. 6, 2022. Andersen Corp. is a manufacturer of windows and doors. Credit: John Autey/St. Paul Pioneer Press via Getty Images

Is Your Company Losing Money Due to Climate Change? Consider Moving to the Midwest, Survey Says

By Kristoffer Tigue

An aerial view of the Tesla Fremont Factory in California on April 24. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Tesla Fell Behind, Then Leapt Ahead of ExxonMobil in Market Value This Week

By Dan Gearino

Traders on the floor at the opening bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on March 18, 2020 in New York.

The Financial Sector Is Failing to Estimate Climate Risk, Say Two Groups in the UK

By Dan Gearino

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

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

By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt

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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