America's Largest Gas Plant Grows Out of Artificial Intelligence's Hunger for Power

After the smokestacks and cooling towers that served Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant were torn down last month, an enormous gas-fired power plant was announced at the site about an hour east of Pittsburgh. If completed, it will become America’s largest methane-powered electric generation facility – and a continuing source of greenhouse gas emissions. More than 200 proposed natural gas power plants have been announced recently across the U.S. to help power the AI data center market.

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April 24, 2025

Louisiana legislatures to debate bills on whether to set a moratorium or ban carbon Capture and sequestration.

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is encountering opposition from Louisiana republican lawmakers, a group that is typically favorable to oil and gas industry interests.

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April 24, 2025

FERC Commissioner asked to resign by White House

The White House has asked Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Willie Phillips, a Democrat, to resign from the position. Phillips’ departure is “effective immediately."

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April 24, 2025

Trump administration to weaken environmental reviews for a range of energy projects.

Following the Trump Administration’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda and National Energy Emergency declaration, the Department of the Interior announced it will enact “emergency permitting procedures”to reduce time periods for environmental reviews.

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In Depth Reports

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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The Long Shadow of Oil Refinery Waste

The use of an oil refinery waste product, petroleum coke, as an ingredient in metals and other products releases large amounts of health-damaging air pollutants, often in disadvantaged communities.

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Flaws in EPA’s Monitoring and Verification of Carbon Capture Projects

The Environmental Integrity Project examined one central component of carbon capture and sequestration regulation in the U.S.: monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) plans required by the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.

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News Articles

Brendan Gibbons

April 10, 2025

Industry lobbyists seek two-year break from limits on cancer-causing pollution from 218 facilities nationwide

Organizations representing heavily polluting industries are taking advantage of the Trump Administration’s offer to exempt them from hazardous air pollution control rules for two years. The rules apply to 218 facilities that make up some of the largest petrochemical complexes in the U.S. Exempting companies from these rules could expose the public to more than 12 million pounds per year of hazardous air pollutants – chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other serious health problems, based on an EPA estimate in April 2024. ‍

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Brendan Gibbons

April 3, 2025

Hundreds of landowners in the path of gas pipeline projects planned across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia

In Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama, the Houston-based Kinder Morgan is in the early stages of seeking authorization for a 279-mile pipeline called the South System Expansion 4 project, which would mostly run parallel to existing, decades-old pipelines owned by Southern Natural Gas, a Kinder Morgan subsidiary. In Mississippi and Alabama, Kinder Morgan has submitted initial plans for a new 206-mile long pipeline that would cross through some of the poorest counties in the state. The Mississippi Crossing project would stretch from Choctaw County in Alabama to Washington County in Mississippi, cutting east-to-west and including the construction of three compressor stations.

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Ari Phillips

March 27, 2025

New York State ignites protests by clearing way for its first major fossil fuel project in nearly a decade

On Feb. 7, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Department of Environmental Conservation issued permits to expand the capacity of two compressor stations that force methane through the 33-year-old Iroquois Pipeline, which carries fuel from the Canadian border through upstate New York, Connecticut, and Long Island to New York City. The announcement drew immediate ire from the state’s environmental community, which has been advocating to move the Democratic-majority state away from fossil fuels as a strategy to combat climate change.

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Brendan Gibbons

March 13, 2025

Congress repeals oil and gas methane pollution fee, costing taxpayers $7.2 billion

On Feb. 27, Congress passed legislation killing a charge on waste methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. At a time when the Trump Administration is firing thousands of federal workers, allegedly to save taxpayer money, eliminating the pollution control fee will cost taxpayers $7.2 billion in uncollected revenue from the oil & gas industry over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

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America's Largest Gas Plant Grows Out of Artificial Intelligence's Hunger for Power

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Industry lobbyists seek two-year break from limits on cancer-causing pollution from 218 facilities nationwide

Hundreds of landowners in the path of gas pipeline projects planned across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia

New York State ignites protests by clearing way for its first major fossil fuel project in nearly a decade

Congress repeals oil and gas methane pollution fee, costing taxpayers $7.2 billion

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