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Is hydrogen fuel worse for the climate than coal? It all depends on how it’s made
Why the EPA says new oil and gas regulations will cut methane emissions 87%
The market can't handle fast-tracking LNG. Neither can the climate.
What causes long-delayed 'zombie' projects? The market, not government permit reviews
Biden/McCarthy compromise would approve Mountain Valley Pipeline and limit national environmental reviews
On the Texas Gulf Coast, a race to build desalination plants to serve a thirsty oil & gas industry
Major carbon pipeline is cancelled as opposition grows and regulations remain elusive
American households could be left in the cold as gas exports skyrocket
Cancer-causing benzene emissions are rising at the Dow Chemical Orange plant in East Texas. Why?
Texas program that subsidizes fossil-fuel electricity turbo-charges 72 power plant applications
Houston’s Parras family has made the pursuit of environmental justice their lives’ work
Ten long-delayed LNG export terminals could lose approvals under new policy
New York is suing Pepsi over oil- and gas-based plastic pollution
Texas plastics factory shows how companies take public subsidies while breaking pollution laws
At least 20 major oil and gas plants proposed in flood zones
Environmental Integrity Project launches updated Oil & Gas Watch database and news site
Drilling for digital dollars? Oil and gas sites catching on with crypto miners
Outdated safety rules at LNG terminals include measure meant to prevent accidents
Behind the climate bill: the high price of Manchin's pipeline deal in Appalachia
EPA will restore an Obama-era chemical disaster safety rule halted by Trump Administration
Despite Biden climate promises, oil production on federal lands is rising
In East Texas, organizers fight massive oil export pipeline planned for popular fishing grounds
Pipeline supplying new PA plastics plant charged with criminal cover up of spills
Jul 23, 2024Company scraps plans for Indiana plastics-to-fuel plant near Chicago
LNG terminal opens in Puerto Rico without required federal approval
Report calls chemical recycling a ‘dangerous deception’ meant to shield the plastics industry
Most hydrogen plants proposed near disadvantaged communities
Proposed LNG export terminals threaten 21,000 acres of wetlands, many in Louisiana
The U.S. dominated the global oil and gas industry in 2023 despite pledges about clean energy
Study: Air pollution from oil and gas flares severely underestimated
Startup of Texas plastics plant by ExxonMobil and Saudi Arabia followed by wave of air and water pollution violations
Opening of new plastics plant brings glowing orange clouds and repeated pollution violations
Federally-funded carbon waste disposal projects ignite opposition
Investigation: Carbon capture tax credits in climate bill riddled with verification failures and other problems
Plastics industry boom brings flood of new ethylene “cracker” plants, despite frequent environmental violations
New EPA report: Plastics chemical found in drinking water poses elevated cancer risk
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Pipeline routes now available on Oil and Gas Watch database
Ammonia fuel sets sail into an ocean of petroleum-based energy
Permitting reform could still rise from the ashes of 'dead on arrival' House GOP energy package
Direct air carbon capture sets up shop in the oilfields of Texas
Chemical plants in TX, LA exceed EPA action level for cancer-causing benzene
The U.S. LNG export boom is spreading to Mexico, creating new environmental threats
Biden Administration offers drillers 67 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico – but industry sues over protections for whales
First-ever EPA data show gas processing plants emit thousands of pounds of carcinogens per year
No plastics panacea: chemical recycling causes pollution, promotes waste
EPA’s failure to regulate laughing gas is deadly serious for the climate
Biden’s bioplastics move could be a shell game, swapping one polluting plastic for another
Report shows oil and gas companies are rushing to establish taxpayer-subsidized carbon storage projects with little monitoring
As Mountain Valley Pipeline races to completion, construction leaves muddy mess in Virginia waterways
World’s largest ammonia complex would make fertilizer from natural gas in West Virginia coalfields
Houston smog worst in 12 years, hitting Latino, Black and lower-income neighborhoods hardest
Houston Ship Channel dredging for oil, chemical industry includes plan to dump toxic sediment in minority neighborhoods
Shell chemical plant that burned near Houston had a record of nearly 2,000 violations
Stalemate at FERC could stall Biden clean energy plan, landowner rights reform
Report: Jet biofuel is weighed down by pollution and loopholes
Texas fishermen worry revived dredging project for bigger oil tankers will harm their catch
The other big fossil fuel project the Biden Administration is pushing in Alaska
New Mexico wants to recycle fracking wastewater for clean energy. Who stands to gain?
Opposition mounts to aging oil & gas pipeline threatening Great Lakes drinking water