oil

A Proposed Utah Railway Could Quadruple Oil Production in the Uinta Basin, if Colorado Communities Don’t Derail the Project

Opponents say the rail line goes against the Biden administration’s efforts to fight climate change and could cause an East Palestine-type disaster on the Colorado River.

By Wyatt Myskow

Biden Approves ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project to Drill Oil in the Alaskan Arctic

By Nicholas Kusnetz

In Pennsylvania, Home to the Nation’s First Oil Well, Environmental Activists Stage a ‘People’s Filibuster’ at the Bustling State Capitol

By Kiley Bense

Eduardo Mendúa, Ecuadorian Who Fought Oil Extraction on Indigenous Land, Is Shot to Death

By Katie Surma

Q&A: California Drilling Setback Law Suspended by Oil Industry Ballot Maneuver. The Law’s Author Won’t Back Down

By Liza Gross

Biden Administration Allows Controversial Arctic Oil Project to Proceed

By Nicholas Kusnetz

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

Texas Regulators Won’t Stop an Oilfield Waste Dump Site Next to Wetlands, Streams and Wells

By Dylan Baddour

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Army Corps of Engineers Withdraws Approval of Plans to Dredge a Superfund Site on the Texas Gulf Coast for Oil Tanker Traffic

By Autumn Jones, Dylan Baddour

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Their Lives Were Ruined by Oil Pollution, and a Court Awarded Them $9.5 Billion. But Ecuadorians Have Yet to See a Penny From Chevron

By Katie Surma

Petition Circulators Are Telling California Voters that a Ballot Measure Would Ban New Oil and Gas Wells Near Homes. In Fact, It Would Do the Opposite

By Liza Gross

Biden Administration Quietly Approves Huge Oil Export Project Despite Climate Rhetoric

By Dylan Baddour

Texas Activists Sit-In at DOT in Washington Over Offshore Oil Export Plans

By Dylan Baddour

New EPA Proposal to Augment Methane Regulations Would Help Achieve an 87% Reduction From the Oil and Gas Industry by 2030

By Phil McKenna

Oil Companies Are Eying Federal Climate Funds to Expand Hydrogen Production. Will Their Projects Cut Emissions?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law

By Liza Gross

¿Por qué permiten que las compañías petroleras de California, asolada por la sequía, usen agua dulce?

By Liza Gross