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A Call for Massive Reinvestment Aims to Reverse Coal Country’s Rapid Decline

By James Bruggers

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Two Louisiana Activists Charged with Terrorizing a Lobbyist for the Oil and Gas Industry

By James Bruggers

Dozens of cranes fill the skyline over the Ohio River a Shell Polymers builds an ethane cracker plant. Credit: James Bruggers

Shell’s Plastics Plant Outside Pittsburgh Has Suddenly Become a Riskier Bet, a Study Concludes

By James Bruggers

Richmond, California, home to a Chevron refinery near San Francisco Bay, in one of several cities suing fossil fuel companies over climate change. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

In Setback to Industry, the Ninth Circuit Sends California Climate Liability Cases Back to State Courts

By David Hasemyer

Youth climate strikers gather at New York City's Foley Square on Sept. 20, 2019, to participate in what's believed to be the largest global climate protest ever organized. Credit: Kristoffer Tigue/InsideClimate News

Could New York’s Youth Finally Convince the State to Divest Its Pension of Fossil Fuels?

By Kristoffer Tigue

A collaboration between Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea’s Daelim Industrial has been planning to construct a $5.7 billion plastics manufacturing plant at this site, as it was in February 2019, in Belmont County, Ohio.

Developers Put a Plastics Plant in Ohio on Indefinite Hold, Citing the Covid-19 Pandemic

By James Bruggers

LG&E imploded the Can Run Generating Station in Louisville on June 8, four years after the coal plant had been decommissioned. Credit: LG&E

Hospital Visits Declined After Sulfur Dioxide Reductions from Louisville-Area Coal Plants

By James Bruggers

Towers of flame shoot skyward from the Mont Belvieu, Texas, petroleum plant explosion on Nov. 5, 1985. Credit: Bettman/Getty Images

For the Ohio River Valley, an Ethane Storage Facility in Texas Is Either a Model or a Cautionary Tale

By James Bruggers

A collaboration between Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea’s Daelim Industrial has been planning to construct a $5.7 billion plastics manufacturing plant at this site, as it was in February 2019, in Belmont County, Ohio.

Market Headwinds Buffet Appalachia’s Future as a Center for Petrochemicals

By James Bruggers

Elk graze the grounds at Hatfield Knob in Campbell County inside the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area, just a few miles away from where Triple H has petitioned to mine. Credit: Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel

Trump May Approve Strip Mining on Tennessee Protected Land

By JAMES BRUGGERS, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND TYLER WHETSTONE, KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL

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Cross-State Air Pollution Causes Significant Premature Deaths in the U.S.

By Neela Banerjee

UNFCCC climate talks in Bonn

Fight Over Fossil Fuel Influence in Climate Talks Ends With a Murky Compromise

By Zahra Hirji

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Oklahoma’s Largest Quake Linked to Oil and Gas Industry Actions 3 Years Earlier

By Zahra Hirji

Obama: U.S. Must 'Do Everything' to End Oil Dependence

By Jeff Mason, Reuters

Obama Can Cut Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Collect $39 Billion

By Elizabeth McGowan

DOE Still Disavows Peak Oil Forecast, Despite New Studies

By Julia Harte

Policy and Rhetoric Ignore Real Limits of Nation's Coal Reserves

By Louise Rubacky

A Dangerous Life Miles from Land and Focused on One Thing: Black Gold

By Guest Writer

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