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Brendan Gibbons
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August 13, 2026

Conservation groups raise concerns about 520-mile gas pipeline from West Texas to Phoenix area

A natural gas pipeline planned from West Texas to the Phoenix area would cross sensitive conservation land in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona on its way to provide power for data centers and other large users in central Arizona. The pipeline is one of more than a dozen planned to relieve the industry’s natural gas bottleneck in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, where drilling for oil often also produces gas as a byproduct that must be burned or released.

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August 13, 2026
AI demand expected to drive U.S. power use to record highs in 2026-27

After setting new records over the past two years, U.S. power consumption is expected to continue to rise over the next two years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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August 13, 2026
Two massive gas pipeline projects approved across Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi

Federal regulators have signed off on two projects that would add nearly 500 miles of gas pipelines across the Deep South.

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August 13, 2026
New LNG export terminal proposed near Corpus Christi, Texas

A company is proposing a new liquified natural gas export terminal near Ingleside, a rapidly industrializing coastal area north of Corpus Christi.

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Ari Phillips
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August 6, 2026

Canadian governments propose 2,000-mile oil pipeline from Alberta to eastern refineries

In early July, the premiers of the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and Ontario proposed a massive new West-East oil pipeline that would transport up to 500,000 barrels per day of oil across the country for refineries to process into gasoline and other fuels. The pipeline, known as the Northern Shield Energy Corridor, would end in Sarnio, Ontario, just across the border from Michigan, north of Detroit, and help reduce Canada’s reliance on foreign markets during a time of increased hostility from the Trump Administration.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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