Fracking

More Data Centers Will Mean More Fracking in Pennsylvania. These Advocates Want Better Protections.

As demand for gas rises, environmental groups say that wider buffer zones are needed around drilling sites. The industry argues that would impede production.

By Jon Hurdle

Fracking Ban in the Delaware River Basin Survives a Republican Challenge (For Now)

By Jon Hurdle

Governments Knew the Risks of Global Warming as They Chose Fossil-Fueled Growth in the 1950s and ’60s

By Bob Berwyn

Trump Again Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, This Time by Much More

By Wyatt Myskow

Pennsylvania’s Fossil Fuel Tax Revenue Lags Far Behind Other Energy States, Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

A Trump Ally’s Rise in Colombia Could Mean the End of Landmark Climate Policies

By Katie Surma

An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town

By Martha Pskowski

In Venezuela, Anxiety About Ramping Up Oil Production in the Heavily Polluted Lake Maracaibo Region

By Avril Silva

Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

By Steven Rodas

Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction

By Wyatt Myskow

Plugging Away at the Millions of Derelict Oil and Gas Wells in the US

Story and photos by J. Matt

As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit

By Bob Berwyn

An Oilfield Leak Springs Under a Permian Basin Baptist Church

By Martha Pskowski

Low-Producing Oil Wells in Texas Cause Headaches for Landowners

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

Oil Tycoon Funds Far-Right Candidate Challenging Texas Oilfield Regulator

By Martha Pskowski

Gas Industry Front Group Targets Democrats in Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense

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

By Marianne Lavelle

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

By Lisa Sorg

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

By Kiley Price