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

Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change.

By Dana Drugmand

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

Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking

By Kiley Bense

A landscape of the landfill appears in the middle ground, a brownish-sandy color, with trees at either side.

Along the Banks of the Mon River, Fracking Waste in a Landfill Once Again Poses a Pollution Problem

By Reid Frazier

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires

By Aidan Hughes, Martha Pskowski

Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened?

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands

By Anika Jane Beamer

Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe

By Bob Berwyn

Two Pennsylvania Towns Seek Public Funding for Water Systems Amid Claims That Gas Industry Contaminated Wells

By Jon Hurdle

Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble

By Dylan Baddour

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

As Trump Pushes Liquified Natural Gas Exports, Residents in Pennsylvania Towns Push Back to Stop a Proposed LNG Terminal

By Nina Sablan

New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events

By Liza Gross

Can Colorado Recycle Toxic Water from Oil and Gas Drilling Without Increasing Emissions?

Story by Jake Bolster, photos by Lee Pruitt

A Week of Gulf South Solidarity in New York City

By Ryan Krugman

Despite Presidente Kennedy receiving record amounts of oil revenues per capita, the town still suffers form poor infrastructure. Credit: José Cícero/Agência Pública

‘Where’s the Money Going?’: Why Brazilian Towns Awash With Royalties From Oil Are Still Among the Poorest

By Rafael Oliveira, Agência Pública and the Guardian

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment

By Jake Bolster

EPA Delays Compliance with Methane Rule, Fulfilling Oil and Gas Industry’s Request

By Aidan Hughes

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