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August 5, 2026
Controversial MI Pipeline Ordered to Redo Environmental Review

In a 6-1 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered Canadian energy company Enbridge to redo its environmental review for the proposed Line 5 pipeline project that would run through the Straits of Mackinac.

August 5, 2026
New Report Examines WV Investment in Chemical Recycling

The Ohio River Valley Institute recently published a report examining a proposed plastics chemical recycling facility planned for West Virginia and the state’s support for the project.

August 5, 2026
High Profits for Oil and Gas Giants from Iran War

While the war in Iran continues to disrupt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz and increase consumer energy prices, companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell report enormous profits.

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Tom Pelton
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July 30, 2026

16 gas storage projects planned in salt caverns along Gulf Coast for LNG industry and data centers

Companies are planning a wave of 16 projects along the Gulf Coast to store natural gas underground in salt caverns to supply the growing number of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals and provide backup fuel for the booming data center industry. Building so many caves full of methane could lead to more leaks of a powerful greenhouse gas. Eight of the proposed storage caverns would be in Texas, five in Louisiana, and three in Mississippi.

Brendan Gibbons
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July 23, 2026

Despite offshore risks, industry looks to Texas Gulf waters to dump carbon waste

With billions in taxpayer subsidies up for grabs, energy companies are looking to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico as a dumping ground for carbon dioxide, despite facing more expenses and greater risks of leaks and blowouts than burying the pollutant onshore. Companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Repsol have been scooping up hundreds of thousands of acres in the Gulf, including in state waters in Texas and Louisiana, for potential carbon waste injection sites. One recent study also contemplates burying pollution off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey.

Ari Phillips
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July 16, 2026

Trump Administration proposes weakening pollution rules for the chemical plastics ‘recycling’ industry

If the proposal were implemented, pyrolysis units – which heat plastics waste at up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit – would no longer be categorized as incinerators under the Clean Air Act and would therefore not be required to meet limits for cancer-causing air pollution

Brendan Gibbons
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July 9, 2026

Trump Administration’s embrace of biofuels likely to drive up fuel costs and increase pollution

In March, the Trump Administration updated the U.S.’s Renewable Fuel Standard to require more plant-based fuel to be used in American cars and trucks than ever before, drawing praise from soybean farmers and agribusiness groups. The new standard requires refiners and fuel importers to blend in record-high amounts of plant-based diesel – 60 percent more than last year. The change is the largest annual increase in the program’s history, according to commodities analysis group Argus. The administration also maintained an existing mandate to blend 15 billion gallons per year of corn ethanol into motor gasoline.

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