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Pipelines

Planned Fossil Fuel Production Vastly Exceeds the World’s Climate Goals, ‘Throwing Humanity’s Future Into Question’

Among the 20 top fossil fuel-producing countries, the U.S., Brazil and Saudi Arabia foresee significant increases in domestic oil production, while Russia, India and Indonesia all project substantial increases in coal.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Construction cranes stand silhouetted by the sunset at the Golden Pass LNG Terminal in Sabine Pass, Texas, in April 2022. Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum, began as an import terminal and construction seen today will create export capability. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images
The Poet bioprocessing plant in Jewell, Iowa, which produces 90 million gallons of ethanol annually. Several pipelines have been proposed in the Midwest that would deliver millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide captured every year from Midwest ethanol plants to underground storage facilities. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines Ever Proposed

By Kristoffer Tigue

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) speaks during a rally to urge President Biden to use his executive powers to stop approving fossil fuel projects, phase out fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters, and declare a climate emergency, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2023. Merkley called FERC's approval of an expansion of an expansion of a natural gas pipeline through the northwest "outrageous" Thursday, Oct. 20., 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images

Feds Approve Expansion of Northwestern Gas Pipeline Despite Strong Opposition Over Its Threat to Climate Goals

By Grant Stringer

Excess natural gas is burned off in a process known as "flaring" an oil well where it is not economically feasible to capture the gas. Credit: (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images.

Texas Continues to Issue Thousands of Flaring Permits

By Martha Pskowski

An aerial view of a natural gas pipeline under construction in Smith Township, Pennsylvania, in October 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

The Biden Administration Has Begun Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas ‘Gathering Lines.’ The Industry Isn’t Happy

By Craig R. McCoy

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

City of Odessa Water Distribution employees work through the night as they attempt to repair a broken water main Tuesday, June 14, 2022 in Odessa. According to Mayor of Odessa Javier Joven, repairs were completed around 3:45 a.m. Wednesday. Credit: Courtesy Odessa American/Eli Hartman.

Summer of Record Heat Deals Costly Damage to Texas Water Systems

By Dylan Baddour

Wind electric power generation turbines generate electricity outside Medicine Bow, Wyoming in August 2022. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/ AFP via Getty Images.

Wyoming Could Gain the Most from Federal Climate Funding, But Obstacles Are Many

By Marianne Lavelle

Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline lie on wooden blocks on Aug. 31, 2022 in Bent Mountain, Virginia. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Federal Regulators Raise Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice

By Phil McKenna

In Brighton, Colorado, a lab at Global Thermostats' commercial-scale direct air carbon capture facility. The facility pulls in air and collects carbon dioxide to store or to use for industrial purposes to help address climate change. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images.

Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Climate Solution?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

President Joe Biden speaks on renewable energy at the Philadelphia Shipyard in July. Biden attended a ribbon cutting at the shipyard for a new offshore wind vessel called the Acadia which will be employed in the building of offshore wind farms. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.

Labor and Environmental Groups Have Learned to Get Along. Here’s the Organization in the Middle

By Dan Gearino

Dusk falls on the existing Southern Trails natural gas pipeline owned by the Navajo Nation as it passes through empty land west of Shiprock, New Mexico. Locals say someone showed up and put in the yellow markers a few months earlier. Credit: Jerry Redfern.

Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

The Boca Chica Wildlife Refuge on the Rio Grande delta, about six miles east of the proposed 750-acre site of the Rio Grande LNG facility. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Developer Confirms Funding For Massive Rio Grande Gas Terminal

By Dylan Baddour

A visitor carries an American flag at the Viola Liuzzo memorial on the side of U.S. Highway 80 in Lowndes County, Alabama, in March 2015. Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who was shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan while shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin on Feb. 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Texas Pipeline Operators Released or Flared Tons of Gas to Avert Explosions During Heatwave

By Dylan Baddour

Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

Activists at the COP27 climate talks last year in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, protesting the influence of the fossil fuel industry. Credit: Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News.

UN Adds New Disclosure Requirements For Upcoming COP28, Acknowledging the Toll of Corporate Lobbying

By Bob Berwyn

In a 2018 file photo, workers in Midland, Texas, extracting oil from oil wells in the Permian Basin. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

By Martha Pskowski

In a file photo, John Podesta, who became President Joe Biden's chief climate advisor earlier this year. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor in President Barack Obama's White House. Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images.

Biden’s Top Climate Adviser Signals Support for Permitting Deal with Fossil Fuel Advocates

By Marianne Lavelle

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