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

Natural gas was pitched as a stopgap between fossil fuels and renewables. Instead, it has derailed Pennsylvania’s energy transition.

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

 Liz Robinson, executive director at Philadelphia Solar Energy Association, at her solar-powered rental property in Philadelphia on Sept. 3. Credit: Laurence Kesterson/Inside Climate News
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
An aerial view shows a natural gas processing plant under construction in Pennsylvania’s Washington County on Oct. 26, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino
An oil and gas operation on leased public land in Kerns County, California. Credit: John Ciccarelli/BLM

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

By Anika Jane Beamer
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright walks outside of the White House on Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe

By Bob Berwyn
A natural gas well pad is seen in southwest Pennsylvania. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Jon Hurdle
Along Texas' Gulf coast, the oil and gas infrastructure in Corpus Christi. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble

By Dylan Baddour
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
In Chester, Pennsylvania, Zulene Mayfield, who heads the nonprofit Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL), outside Reworld’s Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility. Credit: Caroline Gutman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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

By Nina Sablan
Hydrocarbon storage tanks—like this one in the backyard of a home in Arvin, Calif., and next to a playground—pose a disproportionate health risk when they leak. In addition to the climate super-pollutant methane, they emit a cocktail of toxic gases, including the carcinogen benzene. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

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

By Liza Gross
Rifle resident Leslie Robinson and Andrew Klooster, a Colorado field advocate with Earthworks, inspect a geiger counter at a well pad on private property near Parachute, Colo. The gadget keeps track of naturally occurring uranium that resurfaces with oil and gas wastewater.

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

Story by Jake Bolster, photos by Lee Pruitt
Manning Rollerson speaks in front of a crowd of demonstrators outside Chubb Insurance’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters in New York City. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

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
Bureau of Land Management employees check on an oil and gas development site on public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

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

By Jake Bolster
A PEMEX oil refinery is seen on April 8 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Aidan Hughes
Duayne Ruona works on a Laramie Energy oil rig on Oct. 10, 2024 in Garfield County, Colo. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Promised a Drilling Boom. The New Rigs Haven’t Showed Up Yet

By Deep Vakil
The Delaware River flows through Pennsylvania near the New Jersey border. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin

By Jon Hurdle
Loretta Johnson stands by a water well on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. According to an EPA report, the well produces water tainted with arsenic. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main
A possible merger of Shell and BP would be on a scale comparable with the mega-merger between Exxon and Mobil. Credit: Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Analysts Expect More Oil and Gas Mergers. What Could That Mean for the Climate?

By Deep Vakil

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