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Former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, at the National Clean Energy Summit in 2017. Credit: Isaac Brekken/Getty Images

Academics and Lawmakers Slam an Industry-Funded Report by a Former Energy Secretary Promoting Natural Gas and LNG

By Phil McKenna

Exxon's Richard Werthamer (right) and Edward Garvey (left) are aboard the company's Esso Atlantic tanker working on a project to measure the carbon dioxide levels in the ocean and atmosphere. The project ran from 1979 to 1982. Credit: Courtesy of Richard Werthamer

Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago

By Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer

Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods speaks during the CERAWeek oil summit in Houston, Texas, on March 18. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Exxon Criticized ICN Stories Publicly, But Privately, Didn’t Dispute The Findings

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania takes ethane and heats it to extremely high temperatures, “cracking” the molecular bonds holding it together to form ethylene and polyethylene pellets called nurdles. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor

By Kiley Bense

A view of an oil well adjacent to the Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County, Texas on Feb. 24, 2020. NGL Water Solutions Permian has proposed to discharge treated produced water into the reservoir. Credit: Justin Hamel

Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

An Equitrans compressor station in Washington County. Last month, EQT announced it would acquire the pipeline operator to better compete “in a global era of natural gas.” Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

EQT Says Fracked Gas Is a Climate Solution, but Scientists Call That Deceptive Greenwashing

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

During a demonstration at Citibank’s headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday, 33 protesters were taken into custody, including Rachel Rivera (center), a board member with New York Communities for Change. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Dozens of Climate Activists Arrested at Citibank Headquarters in New York City During Earth Week

By Keerti Gopal

In ‘The People vs. Citi,’ Climate Leaders Demand Citibank End Its Fossil Fuel Financing

By Keerti Gopal

At Raccoon Point, in the Big Cypress National Preserve, oil was detected in 1978. Production began in 1981, and the field was expanded in 1992. Credit: National Parks Conservation Association/LightHawk

Oil Drilling Has Endured in the Everglades for Decades. Now, the Miccosukee Tribe Has a Plan to Stop It

By Amy Green

Andres Duran, a Sauzal Bonito resident, points to a crack in his chimney that he says was caused by fracking-induced earthquakes.

Fracking-Induced Earthquakes Are Menacing Argentina as Regulators Stand By

Story and photos by Katie Surma

Antelope graze near oil and gas wells on the Jonah Natural Gas Field south of Pinedale, Wyo. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Western Conservationists and Industry Each Tout Wins in a Pair of Rulings From the Same Court

By Jake Bolster

Rep. Summer Lee attends a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on May 16, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

As a Contested Pittsburgh Primary Nears, Climate Advocates Rally Around a Progressive Fracking Opponent, Rep. Summer Lee

By Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense

Biden Administration Pressed to Act on Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure

By Marianne Lavelle

Cindy Taff, chief executive officer of Sage Geosystems, at a testing site in Starr County on March 22, 2023. The startup is testing storing energy in the ground. “There’s some people that believe that there’s a climate crisis, and some people don’t believe it," Taff said. "We want this to be the energy of choice whether you believe in it or not because it’s cost-effective as well.” Credit: Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas/The Texas Tribune

In Texas, Ex-Oil and Gas Workers Champion Geothermal Energy as a Replacement for Fossil-Fueled Power Plants

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune

Air Liquide’s facility manager Craig Allen at the company's hydrogen storage facility near the site of the historic Spindletop oil well on Sept. 5, 2023 in Beaumont. Credit: Mark Felix/The Texas Tribune

Texas Energy Companies Are Betting Hydrogen Can Become a Cleaner Fuel for Transportation

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune

Sharon Wilson of Oilfield Witness sets up her Optical Gas Imaging camera outside a ONEOK compressor station near the Waha Hub in Pecos County, Texas on March 16. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

When Natural Gas Prices Cool, Flares Burn in the Permian Basin

By Martha Pskowski

Biologist Sandra Steingraber, an anti-fracking activist with Concerned Health Professionals of New York, speaks during a March 5 rally at the New York State Capitol in Albany. Credit: Food & Water Watch

New York State Legislature Votes to Ban CO2 Fracking, Closing a Decade-Old Loophole in State Law

By Keerti Gopal

Steam rises from a petroleum processing tower at an oil refinery near Salt Lake City, Utah. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine

By Liza Gross

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