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An aerial view of the Pinyon Plain Mine operating within the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument near Grand Canyon, Ariz. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Trump Administration Acts to ‘Severely Weaken’ a Key Environmental Law

By Kiley Bense, Wyatt Myskow

A fracking wastewater pond is seen in the Permian Basin near Odessa, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Supreme Court Rules on Produced Water Ownership

By Martha Pskowski

Trucks with the oil and gas industry drive through the countryside in Springville, Pa. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations

By Kiley Bense

A fracking pad is seen in Westmoreland County, Pa., in October 2022. Credit: Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance

Five Years After Pennsylvania’s Landmark Fracking Report, Its Public Health Goals Remain Largely Unmet, Groups Say

By Jon Hurdle

Employees of Bulldog Field Services work on plugging an orphan well for the Railroad Commission of Texas in Luling on March 27. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Legislature Increases Well Plugging Budget as Backlog Grows

By Martha Pskowski

Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on June 12 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

As GOP Tries to Pass Tax Bill, Senate Includes Billions in Benefits for Oil Industry

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during a session of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit on June 17 in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Credit: Teresa Suarez/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling

By Bob Berwyn

Pumpjacks operate on public land leased to oil and gas developers in Wyoming. Credit: BLM Wyoming

USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey

By Jake Bolster

An aerial view of the Pattison Co. quarry in Garnavillo, Iowa. Credit: Pattison Co.

As an Eastern Iowa Quarry Seeks to Quadruple Its Water Use, Residents Urge the State to Intervene

By Anika Jane Beamer

Evaporation ponds hold produced water amid the oil wells of the Permian Basin in Loco Hills, N.M. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Mexico Bans Release of Treated Oil and Gas Wastewater

By Carrie Klein

A view of Big Sewickley Creek downstream from PennEnergy’s proposed water withdrawal site shows erosion control (center) and a portion of the project workspace and parking area (gravel and log on right). Credit: Rose Reilly/Big Sewickley Creek Watershed Association

Pennsylvania Fracking Company Surrenders Water Permits Over Concerns About Stream Flow

By Jon Hurdle

An aerial view of oil storage containers at Chevron’s Pasadena refinery in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

How the World’s Most Powerful Corporations Have Fought Accountability for Climate Change

By Katie Surma

An aerial view of the Shell refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Credit: Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

Dutch Environmental Group Launches New Climate Case Against Shell to Stop All Investment in New Oil and Gas Fields

By Dana Drugmand

An oil drilling operation on the banks of the Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County, Texas is seen on May 27, 2020. Credit: Justin Hamel

Texas Oil and Gas Companies Drill With River Water During Extreme Drought

By Martha Pskowski

Workers cap an orphaned well near Oil City, La. on March 8, 2023. Credit: Cooper Neill for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Scientists Map Where Orphan Wells Pose Threats to Aquifers

By Martha Pskowski

President Donald Trump speaks alongside coal miners before signing executive orders about coal production at the White House on April 8 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment

By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, Wyatt Myskow

New data from NOAA shows that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide increased at a record rate in 2024, partly as a result of continued burning of coal for energy like at the Jänschwalde lignite-fired power plant in Germany. Credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

A Grim Signal: Atmospheric CO2 Soared in 2024

By Bob Berwyn

A sign warns of dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas at a drilling site in the Permian Basin in August 2023. Exposure to high concentrations of the gas can be lethal. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texas Oilfield Company and Executive Plead Guilty in Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths

By Martha Pskowski

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