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Climate activists protested the construction of the Perennial fracked gas power plant on Oct. 30 by delivering a letter to the offices of Gov. Kate Brown and Department of Energy Director Janine Benner demanding they take steps to terminate Perennial’s pe

Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

By Ilana Cohen

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump's Interior Department Pressures Employees to Approve Seismic Testing in ANWR

By Sabrina Shankman

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debates U.S. President Donald Trump at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Oil Industry Comments Were Not a Political Misstep

By Dan Gearino

Activity at a Bakken oil well pad south of Watford City, North Dakota. Credit: William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images

The $16 Million Was Supposed to Clean Up Old Oil Wells; Instead, It’s Going to Frack New Ones

By Nicholas Kusnetz

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Double Eagle Energy oil rig in Midland, Texas, on June 29, 2020. Credit: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

The Oil Market May Have Tanked, but Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Keep Republicans in Office

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An Exxon gas station is pictured in Washington on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Credit: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Exxon Turns to Academia in an Attempt to Discredit Harvard Research

By Nicholas Kusnetz

bucket-wheel excavator removes the first layer of soil for the expansion of the nearby Welzow open-pit lignite coal mine on August 20, 2010 near Drebkau, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

What Germany Can Teach the US About Quitting Coal

By Dan Gearino

Maui. Credit: Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Maui Has Begun the Process of Managed Retreat. It Wants Big Oil to Pay the Cost of Sea Level Rise.

By David Hasemyer

Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot on Oct. 14, 2014 outside Gascoyne, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Too Much Sun Degrades Coatings That Keep Pipes From Corroding, Risking Leaks, Spills and Explosions

By Phil McKenna

Memphis at dusk, with a banner celebrating an anniversary of Memphis Light, Gas and Water, the municipal utility. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images

A Lawsuit Challenges the Tennessee Valley Authority’s New Program of ‘Never-Ending’ Contracts

By James Bruggers

Extinction Rebellion activists protest on the Bank junction outside the Bank of America

Analysts Worried the Pandemic Would Stifle Climate Action from Banks. It Did the Opposite.

By Kristoffer Tigue

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

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