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China’s Clean Energy Push Has Made It Less Vulnerable to Energy Shocks, Including the Iran War

As countries scramble to secure oil, gas and fertilizer, China’s bets on clean energy and coal are cushioning its dependence on oil and gas imports.

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Georgina Gustin

 Workers assemble wind turbine blades at the construction site of a wind farm in Zhangye City, China, on April 17, 2025. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
A man pumps gasoline into his vehicle at a station on March 4 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Credit: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

The Oil Price Shock Is Here. Its Arrival Provides a Familiar Warning.

By Dan Gearino
The ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery is seen on Jan. 13 in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy

By Dana Drugmand
An oil rig drills near Salmon Creek in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest in 2023, where more than 1,000 new oil and gas wells have been approved since October 2006. Credit: Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Despite Limited Interest in Drilling on Federal Land, Forest Service ‘Streamlines’ Oil and Gas Leasing Rules

By Jake Bolster
An aerial shot shows billowing white emissions from stacks in the large complex.

Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies

By Dana Drugmand
An oilfield operation is seen on leased land managed by the BLM’s Bakersfield office in Kern County, California. Credit: Jesse Pluim/BLM

Will Trump’s Push to Drill on California Public Lands be More Successful This Time Around?

By Blanca Begert
Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline are seen at a construction site in Park Rapids, Minn., in 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects

By Teresa Tomassoni
Image shows the Apex landfill exterior sign with flags above it

Ohio Landfills Take Drilling Waste but Don’t Track or Test Much of It

By Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front
An aerial view of a partially collapsed home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on July 30, 2024, after flash floods hit the area. Vermont, along with New York, passed climate superfund laws last year, and similar legislation is pending in a handful of other states. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts

By Dana Drugmand
Machinery transfers coal at a port in China’s Chongqing municipality on April 20. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets

By Nicholas Kusnetz
A blackened pipe with a large gout of flame swirling out of the top.

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica
Pumpjacks operate on public land leased to oil and gas developers in Wyoming. Credit: BLM Wyoming

USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey

By Jake Bolster
The view shows the tops of trees and other plants

Should Oil and Gas Drilling Expand in This Biodiverse National Forest? The Public Overwhelmingly Says No 

By Lee Hedgepeth
A close-up photo of the mussel, shell open, is shown in the gloved hand of the biologist with water in the background

Elevated Levels of Radium Found in Western Pennsylvania’s Freshwater Mussels 

By Kiley Bense

Fossil Fuel Funding Is ‘Embedded’ Across Academia. What Does That Mean for Climate Research?

By Kiley Price
Employees work on the production line at Xiaomi's electric vehicle plant on March 25 in Beijing, China. Last year, 37 percent of new cars sold in China were electric and that figure could climb to 45 percent this year. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

EV Sales Are Taking Off. Why Is Oil Demand Still Climbing?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
American climate activists accused the U.S. of hypocrisy at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, as the world's largest oil and gas producer, for pushing carbon emissions reductions over a fossil fuel phaseout. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

US Climate Activists at COP28 Slam Their Home Country for Hypocrisy

By Bob Berwyn

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