Plastics

Carbon Sequestration

Natural Gas Liquids

Chemical Feedstocks

Environmental Justice

November 7, 2024

After securing $135 million in tax breaks, pipeline company plans massive ethane “cracker” in Southeast Texas

Environmental Integrity Project launches updated Oil & Gas Watch database and news site

With 34 petrochemical ‘plastics recycling’ plants proposed across U.S., a small PA town fights back -- and wins

A new EPA rule is meant to prevent chemical disasters, but safety advocates say loopholes remain

Texas plastics factory shows how companies take public subsidies while breaking pollution laws

February 28, 2024

New York is suing Pepsi over oil- and gas-based plastic pollution

November 21, 2023

Report calls chemical recycling a ‘dangerous deception’ meant to shield the plastics industry

October 4, 2023

Startup of Texas plastics plant by ExxonMobil and Saudi Arabia followed by wave of air and water pollution violations

August 15, 2023

In eastern Ohio, environmental justice fight brews over a tires-to-energy plant

New EPA report: Plastics chemical found in drinking water poses elevated cancer risk

Factory near Houston would convert garbage into jet fuel. “Green” energy or trash talk?

Biden’s bioplastics move could be a shell game, swapping one polluting plastic for another

Texas lawmakers aim to exempt oil & gas projects from school property taxes, but not clean energy

Opening of new plastics plant brings glowing orange clouds and repeated pollution violations

December 14, 2022

Mitsubishi seeks tens of millions in Louisiana tax breaks for largest plastics plant of its kind

December 7, 2022

No plastics panacea: chemical recycling causes pollution, promotes waste

November 8, 2022

How a woman of faith stopped the world's biggest plastics factory

September 20, 2022

Plastics industry boom brings flood of new ethylene “cracker” plants, despite frequent environmental violations

September 13, 2022

EPA will restore an Obama-era chemical disaster safety rule halted by Trump Administration

August 23, 2022

On the Texas Gulf Coast, a race to build desalination plants to serve a thirsty oil & gas industry

Welcome to Oil & Gas Watch News

Plastics

Carbon Sequestration

Natural Gas Liquids

Chemical Feedstocks

Environmental Justice

November 7, 2024

After securing $135 million in tax breaks, pipeline company plans massive ethane “cracker” in Southeast Texas

Environmental Integrity Project launches updated Oil & Gas Watch database and news site

With 34 petrochemical ‘plastics recycling’ plants proposed across U.S., a small PA town fights back -- and wins

A new EPA rule is meant to prevent chemical disasters, but safety advocates say loopholes remain

Texas plastics factory shows how companies take public subsidies while breaking pollution laws

February 28, 2024

New York is suing Pepsi over oil- and gas-based plastic pollution

November 21, 2023

Report calls chemical recycling a ‘dangerous deception’ meant to shield the plastics industry

October 4, 2023

Startup of Texas plastics plant by ExxonMobil and Saudi Arabia followed by wave of air and water pollution violations

August 15, 2023

In eastern Ohio, environmental justice fight brews over a tires-to-energy plant

New EPA report: Plastics chemical found in drinking water poses elevated cancer risk

Factory near Houston would convert garbage into jet fuel. “Green” energy or trash talk?

Biden’s bioplastics move could be a shell game, swapping one polluting plastic for another

Texas lawmakers aim to exempt oil & gas projects from school property taxes, but not clean energy

Opening of new plastics plant brings glowing orange clouds and repeated pollution violations

December 14, 2022

Mitsubishi seeks tens of millions in Louisiana tax breaks for largest plastics plant of its kind

December 7, 2022

No plastics panacea: chemical recycling causes pollution, promotes waste

November 8, 2022

How a woman of faith stopped the world's biggest plastics factory

September 20, 2022

Plastics industry boom brings flood of new ethylene “cracker” plants, despite frequent environmental violations

September 13, 2022

EPA will restore an Obama-era chemical disaster safety rule halted by Trump Administration

August 23, 2022

On the Texas Gulf Coast, a race to build desalination plants to serve a thirsty oil & gas industry

Welcome to Oil & Gas Watch News