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Oil Tycoon Funds Far-Right Candidate Challenging Texas Oilfield Regulator

Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright led the agency’s efforts to reform oilfield waste rules. Oil billionaires are now backing Bo French to unseat him.

By Martha Pskowski

Pumpjacks operate in an oilfield on March 16 in Midland, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images
Eugene DePasquale, the current chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, is the state chairman for Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Gas Industry Front Group Targets Democrats in Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense

Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Los Angeles refinery is seen on April 2 in Carson, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Iran Energy Shock Tests Limits of Trump’s Vision of US Energy Dominance

By Marianne Lavelle

A tanker transporting liquefied petroleum gas is seen at a port in Mumbai, India, after passing through the Strait of Hormuz on April 1. Credit: Anadolu via Getty Images

The Global Energy Supply in a Decade ‘Is Not a World We’re Going to Recognize’

By Lisa Sorg

A construction crew works on Shell’s Vito platform at the Kiewit Offshore Services complex on April 6, 2022, in Ingleside, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

By Kiley Price

Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks to the attendees at S&P Global’s CERAWeek in Houston on Monday. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

White House’s ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Wartime Mandate Meets Volatile Market Reality

By Katie Surma

An aerial view of British Steel’s Scunthorpe mill on April 12, 2025, in Scunthorpe, England. Activities such as steelmaking have disrupted the Earth’s energy balance. Credit: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images

Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

The Mi Vida gas plant is seen on March 18 in the Permian Basin of West Texas near Pecos. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Senator Launches Investigation Into Methane Pollution in the Permian Basin

By Phil McKenna

Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, where ConocoPhillips operates the Alpine Field. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill dominates the horizon in Belle Vernon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Pennsylvania Publishes Long-Awaited Study on Radioactivity in Landfill Runoff

By Kiley Bense

A view of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: Bureau of Land Management

A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah’s Redrock Country

By Georgina Gustin

An oil pumpjack operates in the background as a fast food worker takes orders at a drive-through on Feb. 9, 2023, in Signal Hill, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Unequal Access to Nature Fuels America’s Health Crisis

By Katie Surma

Caribou graze by a portion of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System near the Dalton Highway on May 9, 2025, in Alaska’s North Slope. Credit: Lance King/Getty Images

Expanded Arctic Drilling Faces a Wave of Lawsuits

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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

The police officer and solider are in the foreground; beyond them, water stretches out toward the project.

Trump Says He Supports American Oil and Gas. Why Is His Administration Financing a French-Owned Project in Mozambique?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Blake Muir and his niece, Jennifer Sullivan, stand near a tank battery on his land in Gonzales County. Data shows it could come under nearly 15 feet of water in a 500-year flood. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

Natural gas power plants at the WA Parish Generating Station in Richmond, Texas. More like this are on the way as Texas becomes the epicenter of America's gas buildout. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Developer Calls GW Ranch in Pecos County, Texas, the ‘Largest Power Project’ in U.S.

By Dylan Baddour

Contractors and attorneys for Chevron watch from above on April 10, 2024 as Hawk Dunlap, Daniel Charest and Sarah Stogner (from left) inspect an excavated well on April 10 at Antina Ranch in Crane County, Texas. Credit: Mitch Borden/Marfa Public Radio

New Lawsuit Claims ‘Catastrophic Impacts’ From Permian Basin Injection Wells

By Martha Pskowski

A water pipeline from the T-Bar Ranch terminates at this water tower on the western side of Midland, Texas, where oil pump jacks operate. Credit: Paul Ratje/Inside Climate News

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.

By Martha Pskowski

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