It’s the Beginning of the End for Oil Drilling in Los Angeles By Judith Lewis Mernit February 10, 2022 The backstory of how the nation’s second-argest city voted to move beyond oil In this story: oil
Oil and Gas Companies Routinely Frack With “Trade Secret” Chemicals, Including PFAS By Jonathan Hahn February 9, 2022 A year-long investigation sheds new light on how communities and regulators are kept in the dark In this story: fracking, PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances), drilling, oil, toxics
Funding to Clean Up Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells Is on the Way. Now We Just Have to Find Them. By Lance Frazer February 6, 2022 Drone technology offers a promising new way to track down abandoned sites In this story: oil, dirty fuels
Why Is the Biden White House Refusing to Confront the Oil and Gas Industry? By Nick Cunningham January 10, 2022 Environmental and Indigenous groups are increasingly frustrated with inaction In this story: oil, fracked gas
Halting the Gas Export Boom By Antonia Juhasz December 13, 2021 On Louisiana's Gulf Coast, the fossil fuel industry is planning a massive expansion of LNG exports. One woman is determined to stop them. In this story: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), fracked gas, oil
Two Cheers for California’s New Oil and Gas Setbacks By Judith Lewis Mernit November 6, 2021 New drilling rigs need to be a kilometer away from homes, schools, and hospitals, but old ones stay In this story: oil, fracked gas
Big Oil on the Hot Seat By Jason Mark October 29, 2021 Testifying under oath, oil executives duck, dodge, and deflect In this story: climate change, oil
Past Time to Shut Down Offshore Drilling By Judith Lewis Mernit October 5, 2021 Aging infrastructure and a bottom-feeding oil company caused the Southern California spill, but only because we let them In this story: oil, drilling, offshore drilling
Abandoned Oil and Gas Sites Are Leaking Methane Across the Country By Jennifer Oldham October 6, 2021 Millions of inactive sites emit greenhouse gases without a plan to clean them up In this story: oil, fracked gas, climate change
Hurricane Ida Leaves Trail of Destruction in Badly Polluted Cancer Alley Text and photographs by Julie Dermansky September 16, 2021 A visual record of how extreme weather impacts fossil fuel infrastructure In this story: photography, oil, climate change