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Brendan Gibbons
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December 18, 2025

Taxpayer-subsidized carbon capture is driving a backlash in Louisiana, Texas and other states

Driven by billions in taxpayer subsidies, companies are planning hundreds of projects across the U.S. intended to capture carbon dioxide emissions from industry and pump the pollution underground. The wave of carbon capture, transportation, and storage projects is triggering backlash in the form of lawsuits, grassroots activism, and regulatory changes. States in the Gulf Coast and Midwest have had public debates and court battles over some of these projects. 

News Briefs

December 17, 2025
Fact sheet details 45 ammonia production projects, most relying on fossil fuels

Companies are proposing dozens of projects across the U.S. to produce ammonia, mainly from natural gas, according to a new fact sheet by the Environmental Integrity Project.

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December 17, 2025
In state energy plan, New York backs away from earlier climate goals

New York energy planners released a plan calling for expanding renewables and reducing dependence on fossil fuels while still falling short of the state’s 2019 climate targets

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December 17, 2025
‘Lingering pessimism, uncertainty’ affecting oil & gas industry, according to survey

Oil and gas company executives said in a survey earlier this month that persistent low prices, geopolitical uncertainty, and rising costs continue to affect their industry.

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Ari Phillips
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December 11, 2025

Trump Administration proposes gutting Endangered Species Act to boost energy industry

The Trump Administration recently announced its intention to revoke protections under the Endangered Species Act and allow federal agencies to greenlight destructive mining and drilling projects without studying their impact on the habitat of threatened and endangered species. This proposal comes at a time when the Trump Administration is also aggressively pushing to open up oil and gas drilling in places where it hasn’t been permitted for decades.

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Brendan Gibbons
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December 4, 2025

In refinery town near Chicago, cancer concerns lead to calls for better air monitoring

A group of residents of Lemont, Illinois, and surrounding communities are concerned about cancer and other illnesses, with state public health data showing a a growth cancer cases. After finding data that show occasional spikes of carcinogenic benzene emissions from a nearby Citgo refinery, they are asking for real-time air monitoring and an alert system.

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Ari Phillips
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November 20, 2025

Trump wants to revoke a drilling ban around a cherished World Heritage Site

The Trump Administration recently announced that it plans to abolish a Biden-era federal ban on oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northern New Mexico, home to a large concentration of Indigenous ruins. The announcement is part of the Trump Administration’s broader “drill, baby, drill” agenda of rolling back drilling and mining restrictions on the federal government’s vast land holdings as it aims to boost fossil fuel production.

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Brendan Gibbons
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November 13, 2025

Trump forces expensive fossil fuel plants to keep running, making consumers pay more

So far this year, the administration has ordered a coal-fired power plant in Michigan to delay retirement, as well as a plant that burns natural gas and oil in Pennsylvania, and a mainly oil-fired power plant in Maryland. For the Michigan and Pennsylvania plants, the administration broke with precedent by acting without any request by electric grid operators to keep the plants running or any warnings that the closures would cause reliability problems.

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The Lone Star State’s Gas Plant Boom

A wave of 130 natural gas power plant projects in the Lone Star State, proposed in part to feed the artificial intelligence boom, could release as much greenhouse gas pollution as 27 million cars and trucks driving for a year, according to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project.

Pollution from Oil Refineries with Outdated Boilers and Heaters

The Environmental Integrity Project examined publicly available data and records for the 20 petroleum refineries in the U.S. that reported emitting the most greenhouse gases in 2023. Out of the refinery boilers and heaters with age information, 87 percent of these units (739 of 845) are outdated.

Plastic's Toxic River

The Environmental Integrity Project examined the records of 70 U.S. facilities that make plastics or the main chemical ingredients in plastics and found they discharged almost 12 million pounds in 2023 of total nitrogen and phosphorus.

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