Funding to Clean Up Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells Is on the Way. Now We Just Have to Find Them. Drone technology offers a promising new way to track down abandoned sites By Lance Frazer February 6, 2022 In this story: oil, dirty fuels
Coal Miners Weren’t Happy When Joe Manchin Derailed Build Back Better The United Mine Workers of America issued a statement criticizing the senator for withdrawing his support from the legislation By Austyn Gaffney January 19, 2022 In this story: coal
Why Is the Biden White House Refusing to Confront the Oil and Gas Industry? Environmental and Indigenous groups are increasingly frustrated with inaction By Nick Cunningham January 10, 2022 In this story: oil, methane gas
Halting the Gas Export Boom On Louisiana's Gulf Coast, the fossil fuel industry is planning a massive expansion of LNG exports. One woman is determined to stop them. By Antonia Juhasz December 13, 2021 In this story: liquefied natural gas, methane gas, oil
Two Cheers for California’s New Oil and Gas Setbacks New drilling rigs need to be a kilometer away from homes, schools, and hospitals, but old ones stay By Judith Lewis Mernit November 6, 2021 In this story: oil, methane gas
Big Oil on the Hot Seat Testifying under oath, oil executives duck, dodge, and deflect By Jason Mark October 29, 2021 In this story: climate change, oil
Past Time to Shut Down Offshore Drilling Aging infrastructure and a bottom-feeding oil company caused the Southern California spill, but only because we let them By Judith Lewis Mernit October 5, 2021 In this story: oil, drilling, offshore drilling
Abandoned Oil and Gas Sites Are Leaking Methane Across the Country Millions of inactive sites emit greenhouse gases without a plan to clean them up By Jennifer Oldham October 6, 2021 In this story: oil, methane gas, climate change
Hurricane Ida Leaves Trail of Destruction in Badly Polluted Cancer Alley A visual record of how extreme weather impacts fossil fuel infrastructure Text and photographs by Julie Dermansky September 16, 2021 In this story: photography, oil, climate change
Can Portland, Oregon, Stand Up to the Oil Industry? The city positions itself as a climate champion but faces a crucial test By Nick Cunningham August 23, 2021 In this story: oil, fossil fuels, activism, politics