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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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November 12, 2025
Trump plans to reopen California coast to offshore drilling

The Trump Administration is considering allowing new oil leasing off the California coast for the first time since the 1980s, according to the Washington Post.

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November 12, 2025
Controversial natural gas pipeline approved that would cut through New York Bay

New York regulators have approved a controversial natural gas pipeline after rejecting permits for the project three times in the past.

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November 12, 2025
Trump EPA hands Texas agency the reins on regulating carbon disposal wells

Texas is now the sixth state to get primary authority over wells meant to store carbon dioxide underground after the EPA published a final rule this week.

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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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Ari Phillips
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October 16, 2025

Trump cancels billions in clean energy grants while increasing subsidies for oil and gas

On Oct. 2, the Trump Department of Energy announced it was cancelling over $7.5 billion in federal funding for 223 clean energy projects that the administration argues would be a waste of taxpayer dollars. The projects are mostly in states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election. But President Trump’s own landmark legislation signed in July, the “Big Beautiful Bill,” grants an additional $4 billion a year in new taxpayer subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

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Brendan Gibbons
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October 9, 2025

The oil and gas industry keeps laying off workers as Trump pushes 'drill, baby, drill!'

The record-high oil and gas production that President Donald Trump inherited when he took office has not translated to more jobs in the industry. Major oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP, are all laying off workers amid a decade-long trend of declining industry employment. Industry leaders and analysts attribute the job losses to a combination of persistently low oil and gas prices; higher supply costs, in part due to Trump’s tariffs; and consolidation in the industry, with company mergers leading to eliminating redundant positions.

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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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