Trump’s ANWR drilling leases under review: Biden admin looking at ‘legal deficiencies,’ environmental impacts
"This is really the time that Congress should take action, and restore the protections by dismantling the leasing program."
Gas pipeline explosion kills 1 and injures 5
Alabama is currently in a massive drought and is vulnerable to wildfires, making these events all the more dangerous.
‘A deeply dangerous order’: Trump-appointed judge blocks Biden from pausing new oil drilling leases
"This is a deeply dangerous order that heightens the imperative for bold, urgent climate action on our public lands and ocean."
Study finds solar farms support and boost pollinator populations
While new habitats for vulnerable pollinators are dwindling, if land owners allow meadows to grow around the installed solar panels, these areas will become thriving pollinator habitats, researchers said.
Puerto Rico faces a flood of fracked gas in wake of Hurricane Maria
The gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.
Big Oil’s new strategy: Profit today, fight again tomorrow
Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable.
Warnings of ‘irreversible’ damage from Trump order to ravage Alaskan wilderness for corporate profits
Conservationists and local tribes that oppose the project argue that it’s misleading to view it as a road-building project.
New study reveals melting ice shelves in Antarctica inevitable no matter the climate initiatives
The analysis shows the rate at which the melting of ice shelves floating in the Amundsen Sea in west Antarctica is three times faster in this century than the 20th century.
Minnesota Court of Appeals upholds Line 3 permit allowing construction to continue
"Construction on Line 3 is underway—all eyes now turn to the Biden administration to live up to their commitments to climate action and Indigenous rights by stopping Line 3."
Exxon’s fracking linked to 176 official complaints in rural Pennsylvania
With Trump's apparent plans to gut the EPA and expand both U.S. fossil fuel extraction and exports, prospects for addressing potential fracking risks and water quality don't look good.