Ironically, New England gets a larger share of its power from natural gas than Texas, America’s gas production capital

Rhode Island, Delaware, and Massachusetts are the three most natural gas-dependent states in the U.S., where the fossil fuel – a potent source of climate-warming pollution – makes up the highest percentage of their electricity generation portfolios, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The reason these states rank so high relates to the availability of cleaner solar and wind power in the Northeast, how states share electricity across state lines, and – more recently – opposition from the Trump Administration to offshore wind projects.

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September 9, 2026

Enbridge’s Line 5 leak is Wisconsin’s largest known oil and gas spill

A Wisconsin Public Radio analysis found that a leak of natural gas liquids from Enbridge’s controversial Line 5 is the largest such incident in 50 years.

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September 9, 2026

Report: Texas cities have not benefitted from petrochemical buildout

Texas cities that host petrochemical plants on average have lower income, slower population growth, less job growth, higher poverty and higher unemployment than the statewide average.

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September 9, 2026

Shell to pay $15 million to settle Southwest Pennsylvania air quality violations

International oil major Shell will pay millions to settle accusations of air quality violations over three years at a large chemical facility in Beaver County, northwest of Pittsburgh.

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Courtney Bernhardt

August 27, 2026

Data centers raced to beat Virginia’s new clean air law

Virginia lawmakers passed a new law in April to curb air pollution from new and expanding data centers with diesel generators, but data center developers raced to beat the deadline, with 19 applications submitted in time to take advantage of the older, dirtier, standards. “Filing an application right before a more health-protective standard takes effect shows that these data centers do not intend to be good neighbors,” said Dr. Mary Finley-Brook, a professor at the University of Richmond.

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Ari Phillips

August 20, 2026

Hawai’i considers tsunami of natural gas with first LNG terminal

Clean energy advocates want the state to reduce its reliance on oil and are pushing for solar and wind. But a Japanese-based energy firm, JERA Americas, is proposing to move away from climate-friendly solutions with the proposed construction of Hawaii's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal to help meet rising power demand.

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Brendan Gibbons

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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Ari Phillips

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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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.

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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.

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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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Ironically, New England gets a larger share of its power from natural gas than Texas, America’s gas production capital

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Data centers raced to beat Virginia’s new clean air law

Hawai’i considers tsunami of natural gas with first LNG terminal

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

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

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