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Pipelines

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

Oil companies bid on more than 1 million acres in the first lease sale in the Western Arctic since 2019. The tracts included areas where leasing appears to be prohibited.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

 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
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
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
In Deer Park, Texas, flaring at plants near the Houston Ship Channel in below freezing temperatures on Monday, Jan. 26. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Facilities in Texas Emitted 1.6 Million Pounds of Regulated Pollutants During Last Week’s Icy Weather

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous
An oilfield operation is seen on leased land managed by the BLM’s Bakersfield office in Kern County, California. Credit: Jesse Pluim/BLM

Will Trump’s Push to Drill on California Public Lands be More Successful This Time Around?

By Blanca Begert
Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline are seen at a construction site in Park Rapids, Minn., in 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects

By Teresa Tomassoni
A PolarOil storage facility is seen on March 26, 2025, in Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images

As Trump Eyes Greenland, What Could That Mean for Island’s Mineral Wealth and Environment?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
A view of the El Palito refinery operated by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. Credit: Jesus Vargas/picture alliance via Getty Images

‘The Dirtiest, Worst Oil’ Is in Venezuela

By Phil McKenna
A fisherman casts a net into the sea as an oil tanker is seen anchored in the background on Dec. 18, 2025, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Credit: Jesus Vargas/Getty Images

Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin
Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff
New Jersey environmental activists protest in August against Transco’s 32,000-horsepower compressor station proposed for Somerset County’s Franklin Township, New Jersey, part of the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline. Courtesy Charlie Kratovil.

Will New Jersey’s Environmental Regulators Approve Transco’s NESE Pipeline After Rejecting it Twice?

By Raeanne Raccagno
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) speaks during a news conference in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Oct. 22. Credit: Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

SPEED Act Passes in House Despite Changes That Threaten Clean Power Projects

By Aidan Hughes, Carl David Goette-Luciak
The Salinas River flows through California’s San Ardo Oil Field. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Green California’s Big Oil Problem

By Liza Gross
Donald Moncayo, president of the Union of Peoples Affected by Chevron-Texaco, walks toward a gas flare in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million

By Katie Surma
Emergency crews respond to a pipeline fire in La Porte, Texas, on Sept. 17, 2024. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Greenpeace Scrutinizes the Environmental Record of the Company That Sued the Group

By Martha Pskowski
Local resident Bobby Amerson walks past sections of steel pipe to be used for the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Callaway, Va., on Aug. 30, 2022. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists

By Charles Paullin
Bill McKibben speaks to the crowd at the Climate Superfund Act rally in front of the New Jersey state house on Monday. Credit: Carrie Klein/Inside Climate News

Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up

By Carrie Klein
An oil platform looms in the distance off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif., on Aug. 25. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

An Oil Company Running Into Rough Waters off the California Coast Is Looking to Trump for Help

By Blanca Begert
Climate activists march across the Brooklyn Bridge on Aug. 9 to demand that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stop the construction of the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline. Credit: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

A New York Gas Pipeline Is Closer to Construction, Despite Concerns From Lawmakers, Environmentalists

By Lauren Dalban

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