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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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December 3, 2025
White House plans to weaken fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

Executives from Ford, GM and Stellantis joined President Donald Trump at a White House event Wednesday announcing plans to weaken Biden-era efficiency standards.

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December 3, 2025
Trump Administration delays methane rule for oil & gas until 2027

The EPA made official last month its plans to delay a rule meant to reduce emissions of methane and other oil and gas industry air pollution.

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December 3, 2025
Colorado finalizes plans to eliminate fossil fuel use to heat buildings by 2050

A Colorado state regulatory agency on Monday finalized plans to require utilities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Brendan Gibbons
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October 30, 2025

All U.S. LNG terminals active in 2024 violated air pollution limits over last 5 years

All seven of the LNG export terminals that were fully operational at the end of 2024 violated the Clean Air Act at least once over the last five years, according to “Terminal Trouble,” a new report released this week by the Environmental Integrity Project. Five terminals have exceeded their water pollution control permits at least once over the last five years

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Brendan Gibbons
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October 23, 2025

U.S. data center boom driving wave of new gas-fired power plants

The U.S. is facing a boom in data centers, with the number of these facilities projected to more than double or even triple by 2030, which is triggering a surge in the proposed construction of gas-fired power plants. This growth is being driven by the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, as well as the ever-increasing demand for cloud-based storage. The wave of new data centers and related gas plants are raising concerns about the potential greenhouse gas impact of the boom.

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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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