Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas EnLink Midstream’s Chickadee pipeline ruptured on March 29, 2023, causing one of the largest oil spills in the past decade in Texas. An incident report blames the massive spill on “incorrect operation.” By Martha Pskowski
Chicago, HUD Settle Environmental Racism Case as Lori Lightfoot Leaves Office By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeals From Fossil Fuel Companies in Climate Change Lawsuits By Emma Ricketts
Q&A: The Power of One Voice, and Now, Many: The Lawyer Who Sounded the Alarm on ‘Forever Chemicals’ By Victoria St. Martin
The UN Wants the World Court to Address Nations’ Climate Obligations. Here’s What Could Happen Next By Katie Surma
At the UN Water Conference, Running to Keep Up with an Ambitious 2030 Goal for Universal Water Rights By Delaney Dryfoos
A ‘Rights of Nature’ Fact-Finding Panel to Investigate Mexico’s Tren Maya Railroad for Possible Environmental Violations By Katie Surma
Western Firms Certified as Socially Responsible Trade in Myanmar Teak Linked to the Military Regime By Scilla Alecci and Jelena Cosic
Hurricanes Ian and Nicole Left Devastating Flooding in Central Florida. Will it Happen Again? By Amy Green, WMFE
Pennsylvania Advocates Issue Intent to Sue Shell’s New Petrochemical Plant Outside Pittsburgh for Emissions Violations By Jon Hurdle
Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science By Nicholas Kusnetz
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
Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’ By Georgina Gustin
At COP27, an 11th-Hour Deal Comes Together as the US Reverses Course on ‘Loss and Damage’ By Bob Berwyn and Zoha Tunio