Investigations

Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing

The company sells the CO2 to other companies that use it to revive depleted oil fields and has relentlessly fought EPA oversight of the practice.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

‘Super-Pollutant’ Emitted by 11 Chinese Chemical Plants Could Equal a Climate Catastrophe

By PHIL MCKENNA, LILI PIKE, KATRINA NORTHROP

How the Harvard Covid-19 Study Became the Center of a Partisan Uproar

By Marianne Lavelle

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

By James Bruggers

A Plant in Florida Emits Vast Quantities of a Greenhouse Gas Nearly 300 Times More Potent Than CO2

By Phil McKenna

Emails Reveal Justice Dept. Working Closely with Big Oil to Oppose Climate Lawsuits

By David Hasemyer

Appalachia’s Strip-Mined Mountains Face a Growing Climate Risk: Flooding

By James Bruggers

How Big Oil Blocked the Nation’s Greenest Governor on Climate Change

By Marianne Lavelle

FEMA’s Flood Maps Ignore Climate Change, and Homeowners Are Paying the Price

By James Bruggers

How Energy Companies and Their Allies Are Turning the Law Against Protesters

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Surrounded by Oil Fields, an Alaska Village Fears for Its Health

By Sabrina Shankman

‘This Was Preventable’: Football Heat Deaths and the Rising Temperature

By James Bruggers

Industry Lawsuits Try to Paint Environmental Activism as Illegal Racket

By Nicholas Kusnetz

As Hilcorp Plans to Drill in Arctic Waters, a Troubling History of Violations Surfaces

By Sabrina Shankman

With Oil Sands Ambitions on a Collision Course With Climate Change, Exxon Still Stepping on the Gas

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Neela Banerjee, and Lisa Song

Exxon's Donations, Ties to AGU Are Larger and Deeper Than Previously Recognized

By Phil McKenna, Zahra Hirji and Lisa Song

Exxon's Gamble: 25 Years of Rejecting Shareholder Concerns on Climate Change